[pravj]

I was interested in working with the Data Science team of one of India's leading e-commerce startups.

Later, I ended up doing a project[1] where I have collected and analysed the user order data from their order tracking portal.

Now I feel that they won't take me back because I kind of played like a Black-Hat instead of a White-Hat by not notifying them about the little loophole that made it possible for me.

Before this, I was an intern there and got that because of one of my past project. This method does work.

[1] http://pravj.github.io/blog/indian-ecommerce

[soared]

They likely thought you used knowledge of their internal system for blackhat purposes, which is kind of what you did. Interesting analysis and dci nonetheless.

[justinclift]

Heh Heh Heh

It's kind of sad you sound surprised. :(

If you were in their shoes, how would you have handled someone doing that? :)

[pravj]

Yeah, agree with you.

Although it was not that I stole some secret key or something.

It was just that there was data in public, and I used it for good.