New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack.
The company manages over $90 billion in regulatory assets and has invested in over 800 software and technology startups and companies worldwide during its 30 years of activity.
In a statement released Tuesday, the firm said some of its information systems were breached on January 16 through “a sophisticated social engineering attack.”
After discovering the breach, Insight Partners notified law enforcement in relevant jurisdictions and hired third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate its impact.
“As soon as this incident was detected, we moved quickly to contain, remediate, and start an…