VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack

Venture Capital Firm Insight Partners have informed thousands of people, including the limited partners of the firm that their Hackers stole personal information in previous data violationsThe

In A statement on September 4The VC giant says it completed its review in early August after its data violation, which described it without a further explanation as a “social engineering attack”.

The Venture Farm said in a formal data violation of now filed California Attorney General This week, the hackers that broke into the company’s human resource system by mid -October 2024. It says that hackers exhaust the data exfiltrated from the servers of the insights and starts to encrypt the systems at 2025, it is a feature of one Ransomware attacksThe

The insights also said individually Maine Attorney General This week on an official notice that Ranswear’s attack affects more than 12,600 people.

No data breach notification letters have revealed which specific personal data was taken from the insight systems.

But According to the organization’s previous statementThe stolen data included information about the funds, management agencies and portfolio companies specific insights partners. The hackers also took banking and tax information, the company said, as well as personal information about its current and former employees and its limited partners – usually private and unnamed investors who help provide the capital of the insight initiative.

Insight partners have said more about data violations, as the company has received extortion demand from hackers or whether it has paid hackers. (It is not unusual for agencies Facial Hackers in exchange for not deleting or publishing stolen data)))

Insight partners’ spokesperson Kristen Jake did not respond to emails with questions about the violations sent before the release of Jake.

Under the management of the company, the company has more than $ 90 billion assets and has invested in several largest cyberquacy agencies, including Databrix and Wiz, today.

Insight partners joined a few handful of other initiatives to hack in recent years.

Silicon Valley Venture Farm was Advanced Technology Venture Hit by a ransomware attack In 2021, the same year experiences the Sequia partners Data violationThe Both events allow hackers to swipe personal information to the limited partners of their companies.

Ranswear has been updated on September 17, with additional details about the attack.