Dotcom reported hacking of the software developer for the CIA Palantir

11:46 18.02.2026 •

Peter Thiel
Photo: ‘The Washington Post’

The American company Palantir, which develops analytical software for military departments and special services, including the CIA, has been hacked by hackers. This was announced on February 16 by Kim Dotcom, an American entrepreneur and creator of the Megaupload file sharing service (real name is Schmitz).

"According to reports, Palantir has been subjected to a hacker attack. Artificial intelligence was used to gain access with superuser rights," he wrote on his page on the social network X (ex. Twitter – banned in Russia).

According to Dotcom, the attackers discovered that the company's founders, Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, were following world leaders and industrial magnates. The statement says that Palantir allegedly has "thousands of hours of transcribed conversations" between American President Donald Trump, US Vice President Jay Dee Vance, and SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

According to the entrepreneur, the heads of Palantir also introduced hidden wiretapping mechanisms in the gadgets, cars and planes of politicians, collecting "the largest archive of compromising materials."

Dotcom also claimed that the company was allegedly developing "nuclear and biological weapons for Ukraine" in cooperation with the CIA and was responsible for the deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to him, the data obtained by hackers "will be transferred to Russia or China."

"I was chosen as a trusted partner for this publication. I have nothing to do with the Palentir hack and do not know the hackers. But I know that a hack has occurred," the entrepreneur assured.

Palantir was founded in 2003 by a group of investors from PayPal, led by Thiel. She develops software for data analysis. The company's main customers are military and law enforcement agencies, intelligence services, hedge funds and investment banks. Until 2008, Palantir's only customer was the CIA. He is also considered the main investor of the company.

 

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