VC FIRM Insight Partners says thousands of limited employees and partners have stolen personal data in a ransom attack

Insight Partners Investment Capital has informed thousands of people, including the company’s limited partners, Personal information was stolen by infiltrators in the previous data breach.

in A statement on September 4VC GIANT said it had completed its review earlier in August after it violated the data, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further interpretation.

The project company said now to notify the official data breach with California Public Prosecutor This week, infiltrators erupted during mid -October 2024 to the company’s human resource system. She said that the infiltrators clarified data from Insight servers and began to encrypt the systems on January 16, 2025, a distinctive sign for A. Ransom.

Also said separately Min Attorney General This week, in an official notice that the ransom attack affects more than 1,2600 people.

None of the data breach notification messages revealed the specific personal data taken from Insight.

but According to the company’s previous statementThe stolen data included information about some Insight Partners, management companies and governor companies. The company said that the infiltrators took information about banking and tax services, in addition to personal information about its current and former employees and its limited partners – private investors and non -teachers who help provide capital for Insight investment funds.

Insight Partners has only said little data breach, such as whether the company received a blackmail request from infiltrators or if it paid infiltrators. (It is not uncommon for companies Facing the payment demands In exchange for deleting infiltrators or not publishing stolen data.)

Christine Zik, a spokeswoman for Insight Partners, did not respond to emails with questions about the breach sent before publishing.

The company owns more than $ 90 billion of assets under its management and has invested in some of the largest cyber security companies today, including Databricks and Wiz.

Insight Partners joins a handful of other project companies in recent years that have been hacked.

Silicon Valley Venture Devance Technology Ventures was Ransom In 2021, in the same year that Sikoya’s partners lived Back to the data. Both incidents allowed the infiltrators to pass the personal information of their limited companies’ partners.

Updated on September 17 with additional details about the Ransomware attack.