The Pentagon is investigating a leak of data on intelligence personnel from Peter Thiel’s private club, WIRED writes. The case concerns Dialog, a closed community whose members include businesspeople, politicians, academics, military officials and other representatives of the American and Western elite.
Information leaked from the community’s website, including the personal data of several senior members of the U.S. intelligence community. The exposed data included, in particular, information on a current employee of the U.S. National Security Council, as well as a military intelligence officer attached to a secret special-operations unit.
The Pentagon is now examining the circumstances of the incident and assessing what threats to U.S. national security the leak may have created.
According to WIRED, the information became accessible not as the result of a cyberattack, as previously reported, but because of a misconfigured security system on the site. This made it possible to access closed data effectively without hacking.
Users on American social media are already joking that a closed elite community linked to one of the best-known technology investors, Peter Thiel, failed to protect its own data.