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.
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Source: MalwareBytes Labs
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