VC GIANT Insight Partners notify staff and limited partners after data breach

Insight Partners for the Capital Capital says it has completed notification of a number of individuals, including the company’s limited partners, who Personal information was stolen by infiltrators in the January data breach.

in A statement late last weekThe company said it had completed its review in August after violating the data, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further interpretation.

According to its previous notification, the stolen data included information about some of the money of 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 so far retained the details of the bread, including the number of individuals who were stolen, or submitted a copy of the notification that he sent to the affected people when requesting Techcrunch. The company did not say whether it received a blackmail request from infiltrators or if it paid the infiltrators. (It is not uncommon for companies Facing the payment demands In exchange for deleting infiltrators or not publishing stolen data.)

Christine Zik, an Insight Partners spokeswoman, did not respond to emails with questions about the breach.

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.