Insight Partners ransomware attack exposes data of 12,657 people
U.S. investment firm Insight Partners had the personal information of 12,657 people, including employees and limited partners, exposed in a ransomware attack. The attackers broke in through social engineering in October 2024, stole data and then encrypted servers in January 2025. The company disclosed the breach and began notifying victims.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Insight Partners
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of 12,657 people
- Cause / method
- Intrusion via social engineering, followed by data theft and ransomware encryption
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Insight Partners disclosed the data breach.
- The company began notifying victims about the January hack.
- It emerged that the personal information of thousands of employees and limited partners had been stolen in the ransomware attack.
- The number of victims was disclosed as 12,657, and the sequence of social engineering intrusion, data theft and subsequent server encryption was confirmed.
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