Venture capital firm Insight Partners says that it has informed many persons including limited partners of the firm. Personal information was stolen by hackers in January Data Breech,
In A statement late last weekThe company said that it completed its review in August after data breech, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further clarification.
According to this earlier notice, the stolen figures included some insight partners funds, management companies and portfolio companies. Hackers also took information about banking and tax, the company said, as well as personal information about its current and former employees and its limited partners – usually private and anonymous investors who help in providing capital to the inner venture funds of Insight.
Insight Partners have so far maintained the details of the breech of Brech, in which the data was stolen, or a copy of the notification sent to the affected people when asked by Techcrunch. The company has not said whether it has received a demand for forced recovery from hackers or if it has paid hackers. (This is not uncommon for companies demand for payment In exchange for hackers who do not remove or publish stolen data.)
Insight Partners spokesman Christon Zake did not respond to email with questions about the violation.
The company has assets of more than $ 90 billion under its management and has invested some of the largest cyber security companies today, including databricks and visits.
