A massive data breach has exposed the inner workings of Dialog, the ultra-secretive society co-founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. Leaked databases reveal the meeting records of 222 elite members—including NATO’s top European commander, the US Treasury Secretary, and multiple senators—and disclose agenda items that venture into truly uncomfortable territory: “How to Start a Cult,” “Preparing for World War III,” and “How’s Your Sex Life?”
Running under the radar since 2006, Dialog has often been described as the tech world’s answer to the Bilderberg Group—those closed-door gatherings where politicians and corporate titans hash out global geopolitics. Co-founder Auren Hoffman chairs the society, which hosts annual retreats at high-end venues with a registration fee north of $16,000. This August’s Dublin summit was supposed to be strictly off-the-record, but the leaked agendas tell a different story.
Beyond the eyebrow-raising topics, the leak also includes personal data from the society’s private dating platform (dating.dialog.org), where members disclosed their political leanings and matchmaking preferences. Dialog promised that information would never see the light of day, but a misconfigured Airtable database, exposed directly in the website’s front-end code, left it all accessible.
The attendee list reads like a who’s who of power: Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, House Intelligence Committee senior member Jim Himes, and multiple executives from Google and Google DeepMind. Several military and government officials—including NATO General Alexus Grynkewich—registered using personal email addresses rather than official government accounts, effectively sidestepping public records laws like FOIA.
The security lapse was uncovered by hacker maia arson crimew, who spotted an exposed Airtable database directory in Dialog’s website code. The directory even contained members’ private login credentials.