India, June 8 -- Grocery delivery startup KiranaPro has been battling fires all week. After an 'internal data breach' by a 'trusted employee' wiped company data and affected its customer-facing app, reports surfaced about delayed salaries at the Bengaluru-based startup.

KiranaPro CEO Deepak Ravindran told HT.com that the former employee behind the data breach was laid off rather than fired. He said that differences between them have now been settled.

Last week, KiranaPro claimed it had been hacked and all its data had been deleted. Later, CEO Deepak Ravindran took to LinkedIn saying that a former employee was behind the data breach.

"After careful investigation, we conclude that this was not a hack. No external party penetrated our ord...