- Insight Partners confirms the effects of January 2025
- The VC company reveals that some confidential data were stolen
- No one has assumed the responsibility of the attack
Insight Partners, an important risk capital organization that invested in some of the largest technological organizations today, has confirmed the suffering of a cyber attack in which it lost confidential data on employees and some of its partners.
In mid -February 2025, the company issued a statement, informing that it suffered a cyber attack a month earlier.
“On January 16, 2025, Insight Partners detected that an unauthorized third party agreed to certain information information systems through a sophisticated social engineering attack,” says the announcement. “As soon as this incident was detected, we moved quickly to contain, remedy and start an investigation in a matter of hours. We notify the interested parties connected to the vision in January to alert them and encourage surveillance and hardened security protocols regardless of having shared the shared data. We also notify the application of the law in the relevant jurisdictions.”
Details of the investor committed
The company said it did not find evidence of intrusions after January 16, adding that, since the attack was contained in a single day, it did not interrupt its daily operations.
Recently, the announcement updated, saying that the violation was verified and confirmed that some confidential data were lost, including the information of the fund, the information of the management company, the information of the portfolio company, the bank information, the fiscal information, the personal information of the current and previous employees, and information related to the limited partners.
The company still does not know how many victims there is, but said it would notify the affected entities in the next few days. Finally, he urged everyone to closely monitor the financial statements and credit reports.
No one has assumed the responsibility of the violation.
Insight Partners is a global venture and private capital firm that invests in high growth technology, software and internet companies.
The firm manages more than $ 90 billion in assets and has invested in more than 800 companies worldwide. Some of its most notable investments include cybersecurity companies such as Armis and Wiz, as well as public guidance platforms such as Monday.com and Wix.
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