A data exposure at Dialog, the private events group cofounded by Peter Thiel, has revealed personal information belonging to US national security personnel — including a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty military intelligence officer. The Pentagon confirmed in June 2026 that its operations security team is examining the matter.
The exposed records covered 222 Dialog event registrants, among them current and former senior military and national security officials from the United States and allied nations. The two most sensitive cases involve an official on the National Security Council (NSC) — described as a former CIA officer who advises President Trump and the national security adviser on sensitive intelligence programs — and an active-duty intelligence officer embedded with a “Tier 1” special operations unit. Both had been invited to attend a Dialog retreat scheduled for this August outside Dublin, Ireland, and neither had a prior history with the group.
The breach was discovered following a tip received by Swiss cybersecurity researcher maia arson crimew. Evidence indicates the files were accessible due to a misconfiguration on Dialog’s own website, not a cyberattack as Dialog has internally characterized it. Anyone with an email address could create an account, log in, and access the files by loading a landing page for the group’s app. How long the records were exposed, and who else may have accessed them, remains unclear.
The exposed dossiers included dates of birth, home addresses, mobile numbers, headshot photos, private authentication tokens, political leanings, and survey responses. The NSC official’s file also contained personal predictions and book recommendations submitted as part of Dialog’s registrant questionnaire.
Dialog’s outside counsel demanded WIRED, which broke the story, turn over its copy of the data, characterizing it as “stolen.” WIRED declined. Dialog did not respond to questions submitted for the story, and the White House declined to comment while asking that the NSC official not be named.
Personal data on intelligence and military personnel is highly sought by foreign intelligence services, which use it to identify, surveil, and approach US operatives. For active-duty officers, such exposure may add operational risks.
Source: WIRED