‘Based on our investigation to date, we understand that the impacted data may include certain fund, management company, and portfolio company information,’ according to Insight Partners.
Insight Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in vendors that sell through the channel, is starting to inform any individuals affected by the security incident it experienced in January, with “portfolio company information” potentially impacted.
The New York-based firm–whose portfolio companies include Google acquisition target Wiz as well as Kaseya and Veeam–said in a statement that it will start notifying those affected “on a rolling basis.”
“Based on our investigation to date, we understand that the impacted data may include certain fund, management company, and portfolio company information, banking and tax information, and certain personal information of our current and former employees, as well as information related to our Limited Partners,” according to the statement.
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Insight Partners Incident
CRN has reached out to Insight and multiple portfolio companies for comment.
Insight recently sold Recorded Future to Mastercard. The firm has recently invested in the likes of Databricks, SpecterOps and Abnormal Security.
Insight said it has already updated employees and limited partners.
“We regret any inconvenience this incident may have caused,” according to the statement.
The firm put out a statement on Jan. 16 about closing on $12.5 billion in capital to invest in more software companies. That same day, the firm detected that an unauthorized third party accessed some of its information systems through a social engineering attack.
