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Internal records from an invitation-only society founded by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel were inadvertently left exposed online, according to a report by WIRED, naming more than 200 powerful figures in U.S. politics, finance and technology along with sensitive personal details they had been assured would remain private.<\/p>\n

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The organization, called Dialog, was co-founded in 2006 by Mr. Thiel and data entrepreneur Auren Hoffman. It convenes U.S. officials, foreign government figures and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats and has spent two decades declining to disclose its members.<\/p>\n

The breach was first surfaced by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, known for previously exposing the U.S. government\u2019s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, who told WIRED the directory was discovered via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents.<\/p>\n

A separate source provided WIRED with the registration list for Dialog\u2019s 2026 retreat, which names 222 people and records each registrant\u2019s membership status and attendee type, including \u201cactive member\u201d and \u201cguest,\u201d according to the outlet. The retreat is scheduled for Aug. 12\u201316 at the Powerscourt Hotel outside Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n

The leaked agenda reveals an eclectic program of off-the-record sessions, including panels titled \u201cMoney (Does?) Buy Happiness,\u201d \u201cBring Back Nuclear,\u201d \u201cNavigating WWIII,\u201d \u201cBattlefield Technologies\u201d and \u201cHow\u2019s Your Sex Life?\u201d Other talks include \u201cBuild-a-Cult,\u201d moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and \u201cBuild-a-Party,\u201d run by a former White House national security official.<\/p>\n

The registration records, as described by WIRED, paint a picture of an extraordinary convergence of power. The list includes General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO\u2019s supreme allied commander Europe and the head of U.S. European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory also names sitting Trump administration officials, two U.S. senators, six members of the PayPal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country\u2019s largest surveillance, data-broker and advertising-data companies, WIRED reported.<\/p>\n

The juxtaposition of industry insiders alongside their government overseers is striking. Mr. Hoffman, Dialog\u2019s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.<\/p>\n

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale \u2014 whose firm is a major contractor with U.S. federal agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Defense Department \u2014 is listed alongside Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Rep. Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, according to WIRED.<\/p>\n

None of the individuals named in the report responded to WIRED\u2019s requests for comment. Raffi Grinberg, who identifies himself as Dialog\u2019s executive director on LinkedIn, also did not respond, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

Of the 222 people signed up for the 2026 retreat, 87 are marked as first-time attendees, per the leaked records. None of the registrants, including General Grynkewich, used a government email address \u2014 all registered with personal or corporate accounts, placing their attendance outside the email systems subject to public-records laws.<\/p>\n

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What ties the roster together, WIRED reported, is a shared fixation on artificial intelligence and civilizational risk. Asked on a sign-up form to predict the future, registrants returned again and again to the same theme: that AI will reorder work, war, education and belief within a few years. Several foresee mass labor displacement and a swing back toward unions and government programs; others predict an \u201cAI winter,\u201d domestic terrorism targeting data centers or religious revival provoked by the disruption. \u201cSocietal degeneration,\u201d predicted one person, \u201cwill continue to accelerate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group also functions as a matchmaker, according to the leaked records. Its participant form asks registrants whether they are \u201clooking for love\u201d and offers to include respondents in \u201cfuture matchmaking.\u201d A separate site hosts an app pitched as \u201cmeaningful connections for exceptional people.\u201d The form additionally collects each registrant\u2019s political leanings, with a promise the information would never be shared \u2014 data that was also exposed in the leak, WIRED reported.<\/p>\n

The leaked registration list names additional senior figures not previously known to be affiliated with Dialog, including Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Bank of England\u2019s Financial Policy Committee; Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, the president of the Cato Institute; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

The list also includes a cluster of Google and Google DeepMind executives and one working journalist \u2014 Souad Mekhennet, a national security correspondent for The Washington Post, listed as running an event called \u201cUlysses Book Club,\u201d according to WIRED.<\/p>\n

The security lapse that enabled the exposure was elementary. The member directory was embedded in the code of dialog.org and was served to any visitor who viewed the page\u2019s source.<\/p>\n

Dialog has long drawn comparisons to the Bilderberg Group. It has held past retreats at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona and the San Clemente Palace in Venice, Italy, and Axios reported last year that the group was in active discussions to purchase property in Virginia to build a permanent campus near Washington. The 2014 retreat drew renewed attention this year when an invitation forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein surfaced in the Justice Department\u2019s release of the Epstein files \u2014 though the \u201cJeff Epstein\u201d on an attached list of past participants was actually the former CFO of Oracle, not the deceased sex trafficker.<\/p>\n

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