Dialog's Data Breach Was Likely Due to Misconfigured Website, Not a Hacker, WIRED Finds
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Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra
Summary
Dialog, an invite-only events group cofounded by Peter Thiel, notified members that a database containing personal information had been breached by a "criminal" hacker. However, a WIRED investigation found that the files were actually exposed due to a misconfigured website landing page, making them publicly accessible without any hacking required. The data exposure affected members and past event participants, and cybersecurity experts described the situation as a configuration error that effectively left the data open to anyone who visited the group's app landing page.
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