- Insight Partners confirms the effects of the violation of January 2025
- VC reveals that certain sensitive data have been stolen
- No one has yet claimed the responsibility of the attack
Insight Partners, a major venture capital organization that has invested in some of the largest technological organizations of the current time, confirmed the suffering of a cyber attack in which it has lost sensitive data on employees and some of its partners.
In mid-February 2025, the company published a declaration, informing that it underwent a cyber attack a month earlier.
“On January 16, 2025, Insight Partners detected that an unauthorized third party reached certain information systems on Insight thanks to a sophisticated social engineering attack,” said the announcement. “As soon as this incident was detected, we quickly moved to contain, remedy and start an investigation in a few hours. We informed the stakeholders linked to insight in January to alert them and encourage vigilance and tightened security protocols, regardless of sharing data.
Details of compromise investors
The company said that it had not found any evidence of intrusions after January 16 and added that, since the attack was contained in a single day, it did not disrupt its daily operations.
He recently updated the announcement, claiming that the violation had been verified and confirming that certain sensitive data has indeed been lost, in particular fund information, management companies, information on portfolio companies, banking information, tax information, personal information from current and old employees and information related to limited partners.
The company does not know how many victims there are still, but said that it would note the affected entities in the coming days. Finally, it urged everyone to closely monitor the financial statements and credit reports.
No one has yet claimed the responsibility of the violation.
Insight Partners is a worldwide venture capital and capital-investment company that invests in technology, software and high-growth internet companies.
The company 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 -oriented platforms such as Monday.com and Wix.
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