‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources

The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator. KiranaPro lets users shop at “Kiranas,” the Indian equivalent of convenience stores, which mostly stock basic foodstuffs. Users of the app place an …

[Ken Y-N]

Something doesn't add up

the app “powers the livelihoods of thousands of Kirana store owners” and handles 2,000-plus orders each day.

So each store survives on less than one additional order per day? Have a few zeroes disappeared somewhere?

[tmTM]

Re: Something doesn't add up

No, no, that's standard startup mentality.

Barely anyone knows your product, you serve few people and your turnover is tiny. Yet you're the next biggest thing and obviously worth billions.

[goblinski]

Re: Something doesn't add up

So each store survives on less than one additional order per day?

There are no laws in India preventing store owners from selling stuff in their stores and forcing them to bid on obscure online platforms exclusively.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Something doesn't add up

Because of plus qualifier you need to employ plus calculus here...which results in "less than 1-plus order" per store which could mean even 1 million orders,thus resolving the paradox.

[wolfetone]

“We are rebuilding our systems with enhanced security measures to prevent future incidents,” he added.

We have changed our password from Password01, to Password01!

[elsergiovolador]

Parseword01!

[Ken Shabby]

On my way todo list

[Brewster's Angle Grinder]

This reads like a CEO with persecution complex can't quite accept his tech stack was full of holes and skiddies cancelled him for shits and giggles. (If it was pros, they would have encrypted it and demanded a ransom.) "It must be some malign force determined to injure me, not that I was naff, depended on luck, and my winning streak came to an end."

Given the personality on display, I can't rule out a former employee snapping. But I want to see concrete evidence of something more than a scape goat before I believe.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup, there is definitely an elephant in the room. More elephants in the room?

How many elephants do they have out there?

[Korev]

On Twitter the CEO has Named and shamed" someone and it looked like it was an ex-employee's account.

[Korev]

> KiranaPro lets users shop at “Kiranas,” the Indian equivalent of convenience stores

I'm pretty sure a convenience store is the same thing the world over...

[Robert Carnegie]

The definition of "convenience" may vary, although not much in this case if Wikipedia is correct:

"In India, "mom-and-pop" convenience stores are called kirana stores and constitute part of the traditional food retail system. Kirana are typically family-owned stores that operate in fixed locations and carry both basic food and non-food items."

Whereas if India has Tesco Metro as well, then I assume that Tesco has its own app.

And in the United Kingdom, "convenience" is a euphemism for a restroom, but that is not very relevant.

[Korev]

> The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack

Was this due to Lakhs security?

[Anonymous Coward]

Kaur blimey, I'd Singh your praises if your joke wasn't awful, instead I looked Hindu the situation and I think I need to advise that you Sikh help. I'd come up with some India gags myself but I'm too busy to Tikka bit of time to do it...I'll have to do it Samosa time.

[Korev]

That curried my favour

[Anonymous Coward]

Aloo there and thanks. You're too kind. The joke started to Sag in the middle but I'm not going to Karai over it, there were no gags in the middle because there were Naan to make. Anyway, I'm tired, I'm going to go Reshmi head and get some shut eye.

[Ken Shabby]

A kingfisher for you

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[An_Old_Dog]

An Angry Man Roars

It seems to me the CEO is just man roaring in anger and impotence: if he could prove who the malefactor was, the CEO would already have sicced the police on the malefactor, rather than yelling, in effect, "I'm gonna git you!"

[ChrisElvidge]

Left an S3 bucket open?

[Anonymous Coward]

Surely you mean Balti?

[Anonymous Coward]

Curious enough to look at his X posting :(

From what I can determine his app is sort of an Uber app from small (grass roots) groceries - Kirana stores.

His father once operated such a store so he presumably knew the business.

Apparently with the rise of e-commerce in India the Kirana stores' suppliers were cutting these store out the chain by supplying direct to customers which mirrors the demise of bricks and mortar retailers elsewhere.

The effects of the loss of income has caused thousands of such stores to close and I would assume the remaining store to increase margins (prices.)

In a society with such enormous disparity of wealth and consequent disparate access to e-commerce etc the poorest will pay the most.

I think this chap's was to intended to address some of these issues but I can't quite see how in the case of the customer who doesn't have access to basic e-commerce in the first instance. COD?

The transformation of the Indian economy and its society in the last three decades including the part technology has played would make fascinating reading.

[Robert Carnegie]

Re: Curious enough to look at his X posting :(

I don't know if it's the answer in this case, but cellphones can do a lot.