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Online marketplace LimeRoad's user data leaked, firm denies allegations

LimeRoad was co-founded in 2012 by Suchi Mukherjee, Manish Saksena and Ankush Mehra as a fashion marketplace for women.

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The leaked database included names, phone number and emails of the users.

Sai Ishwar Mumbai
Around 1.29 million customer records of online marketplace LimeRoad were posted for sale on Dark Web, according to a report by US cybersecurity firm Cyble. The leaked database included names, phone number and emails of the users.

"As part of our regular deepweb and Dark Web monitoring, we came across a threat actor who claimed to have around 1.29 million customer records of Limeroad. The data seems to be legitimate,"  the report said.

LimeRoad was co-founded in 2012 by Suchi Mukherjee, Manish Saksena and Ankush Mehra as a fashion marketplace for women. It is said to be India’s first women’s

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