Some organizations exist to be exclusive. They’re invite-only, and discreet, the kind of place where the membership directory is the product.
Dialog, the exclusive network founded by billionaire investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, whose members include a sitting NATO commander, two US senators, and the US Treasury Secretary, is one of those.
Last week, information on hundreds of those members was sitting in plaintext on its app distribution site, visible to anyone who knew how to right-click. Then Dialog said it had been hacked.
A signup page that led straight to members’ files
The site was set up to distribute a phone app to support an upcoming gathering for the network, which arranges high-end get-togethers. Any visitor could sign up using any email address. It did not request a password.
