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Internal records from the private Dialog organization were exposed online, revealing names of attendees at its annual retreats along with personal details. The group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, brings together government officials and technology executives for off-the-record discussions.
New York PostInternal records from the private Dialog organization were left exposed online, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details. The group, cofounded in 2006 by Peter Thiel, convenes U.S. officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats.
org was first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. WIRED independently verified the contents after receiving an anonymous tip. A separate source provided the registration list for Dialog's 2026 retreat, which names 222 people and records membership status and attendee type.
The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 near Dublin, Ireland. com and "Build-a-Party" run by a former White House national security official.
The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of U.S. European Command. The website directory 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.
Auren Hoffman, Dialog's chairman and founder of SafeGraph and LiveRamp, appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and Senator Ted Cruz. Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale is listed alongside Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes.
The records sit in Airtable and log membership status, retreat history, biographies, home cities, and private access tokens. WIRED is not publishing the tokens or the personalized account links. The leaked list also names Randy Kroszner, a former Federal Reserve governor, Hallie Hoffman, a former Drug Enforcement Administration general counsel, Jonathan Greenblatt, Peter Goettler, Ryan Stowers, and Roger Myerson.
“everything is 'off the record' and that comments should be concise and 'nonobvious.'" — Dialog moderator guide The directory was embedded in the code of dialog.org and served to any visitor who viewed the page's source. A separate page at app.dialog.org presents a sign-in screen for "Dialog Global 2026" without terms of service or notice that an invitation is required.”
Dialog has operated with little public footprint since its founding. Past gatherings have been held at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona and the San Clemente Palace in Venice, Italy. The 2026 registration list names 222 participants, up from accounts describing retreats of around 100.
The statistician Andrew Gelman published one of Dialog's invitations to his blog in 2022, describing its format and a registration fee of more than $16,000. An invitation forwarded to the financier Jeffrey Epstein surfaced in recent U.S. Justice Department releases, though the listed Jeff Epstein is the former CFO of Oracle.
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