Insight Partners Business Fund business has alerted thousands of people, including the company’s limited partners, that their personal information was stolen by hackers in previous data breach.
In Statement on September 4The VC giant said he completed his revision earlier in August after breach of his data, which he described as a “social engineering attack” without further explanation.
Business Operation Operation has now said in an official data breach notice Attorney General of California This week when hackers broke in mid -October 2024 in the company’s human resource system. He said hackers angered data from Insight servers and began to encrypt the systems on January 16, 2025, a feature of a ransomware attack.
The insight separately also said the Attorney General This week in an official notice that the ransomware attack affects more than 12,600 people.
None of the data notice letters have revealed what specific personal data was obtained from the Insight systems.
But According to the company’s previous statementThe stolen data included information on the funds of some partners, management companies and portfolio companies. The hackers also received banking and tax information, the company said, as well as personal information about today’s and former employees and its limited partners – the formal private and anonymous investors who help provide funds for Insight’s funds.
Insight Partners has said nothing more about data breach, such as whether the company has been demanding blackmail from hackers or paying hackers. (It is not uncommon for companies to face payment requirements in exchange for hackers that delete or do not publish stolen data.)
Kristen Zeck, a spokesman for Insight Partners, did not respond to emails with questions about the violation sent before the publication.
The company has more than $ 90 billion in assets under its management and has invested in some of the largest cyberspace companies today, including Databricks and Wiz.
Insight Partners has been involved in a handful of other business businesses in recent years to have been tired.
Silicon Valley Venture Firm Advanced Technology Ventures was hit by a ransomware attack in 2021, the same year that Sequoia’s partners met data breach. Both incidents allowed hackers to pass personal information of their limited partners.
It was updated on September 17 with additional details on the ransomware attack.
