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Lemonade refutes activist short seller’s ‘security flaw’ allegations

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Lemonade has denied that its website has a vulnerability that could enable people to enter and edit its users’ accounts without providing credentials, as alleged by an activist short seller.

In an open letter to Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber, dated 13 May, Muddy Waters Research’s Carson Block alleged that the activist short had “accidentally discovered that Lemonade’s site contains a

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