Grocery delivery startup, KiranaPro is under scrutiny after a major internal disruption crippled its services last week. What was initially believed to be a cyberattack has now been confirmed as an insider incident, involving a former employee with privileged access to internal systems.
The disruption led to the loss of critical data and brought operations, including the customer-facing app, to a temporary halt. An internal probe revealed that the breach was not the work of external hackers. Instead, it was allegedly caused by a former team member whose role had been done away with during a recent organisational restructuring. He was not officially terminated but list his role during a reshuffle under the company’s newly-appointed chief technology officer.
The angry former employee reportedly unhappy with the role change, deleted important server logs during a product test. This led to disruption of services and concerns of a full-scale data breach emerged,, before the company found out what had actually happened.
That isn’t all. KiranaPro has also been delaying salary payments. Several curren and former employees have reported that salaries for April and May have not been paid. Some staff claim that salaries have been delayed for up to four months.
Leaders of the startup have blamed the delays on the delay in funds from investors. Partial payments have been made, with promises of clearing all dues once funding is secured. KiranaPro’s operations have, therefore, been disturbed and raised doubts about the internal governance and employee relations at the startup.
