A leak of sensitive information from “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate’s online empire reveals that his “War Room” program teaches men to accumulate wealth, attract and control women and “penetrate” the elite, including by exploiting the sexual misbehavior of wealthy acquaintances.
The data provide new insight into the business operations of Andrew Tate, a British-American citizen who has reportedly cultivated relationships with Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump and other figures on the American right even as he and his brother, Tristan, have defended themselves against accusations of sexual assault in two countries.
Download the Straight Arrow app today to get the stories that matter free from manipulation, bias or agenda.™
Point phone camera here
Material included in the leak shows that the “Penetrating the Elite” class in Tate’s War Room program — little known outside the organization — offers “espionage” training for subscribers aimed at digging up secrets on wealthy individuals for leverage in business deals. Another class teaches participants to categorize women into “exploitable types” who can be manipulated — and, if they don’t follow rules, disciplined.
A security researcher provided the data to Straight Arrow and to the leak-archiving organization DDoSecrets. The researcher detected the leak as the Tate brothers — Andrew is 39; Tristan, 38 — are being held in a federal detention center in Miami while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom to face charges involving at least four alleged victims. In a hearing this week, a federal prosecutor said Andrew Tate is accused in the U.K. of choking and holding victims and raping them, and his brother is accused of human trafficking, money laundering and violence against minors.
“They promote incredible violence against women consistent with the allegations against them,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Abbie Waxman told the judge.
The Tates also face sex crime charges in Romania.
In testimony on Thursday, Tristan Tate denied all allegations against him and his brother.
Straight Arrow spoke with a War Room representative who provided an email address previously promoted by Tate to inquire about the data exposure. No one replied to the inquiry.
Attempts to contact Andrew Tate’s lawyers were not successful.
The Tate brothers are two of the most prominent figures in the manosphere, the online communities focused on masculinity, misogyny and wealth. Andrew Tate once implored his followers to reclaim their “natural masculine imperative for power,” as he sold spots in online courses that offered a “Ph.D.” — a “Pimping Hoes Degree.”
Women lured into online sex work by members of Tate’s War Room have reported physical and sexual abuse, as well as financial exploitation.
Inside the ‘War Room’
The researcher who discovered the leak asked to remain anonymous over fears of retaliation by Andrew Tate’s lawyers. The researcher — who discovered more than 12 terabytes of data, including an archive of production material hosted on the website Mega — stressed that none of the data was obtained through illegal hacking. Instead, the researcher uncovered the material by analyzing the publicly accessible source code for Tate’s online infrastructure.
“There was no hacking: no credentials were defeated, no login was bypassed, no system was broken into,” the researcher told Straight Arrow. “Everything came out of source code the sites served publicly to every visitor, or out of content they left openly reachable.”
Andrew Tate has described the War Room as a network that teaches men “self-discipline, motivation and confidence building whilst giving members access to thousands of professionals from around the world who encourage personal responsibility and accountability…” Membership is currently $2,400 a year, down from a previous price as high as $8,000.
According to a 2023 BBC investigation based on 12,000 pages of messages sent over the War Room’s Telegram channel, members were taught, among other things, how to “romantically seduce, emotionally manipulate and socially isolate women before luring them into performing on webcams — often taking all or most of the money they make.”
The security researcher found that the War Room Telegram app contained code revealing 235 privileged IDs split across seven tiers. Roughly a dozen people make up a small operational staff that is divided into categories: Superadmin, Checkout Admin, Directors and Payments. The remaining IDs are tied to members who made additional payments and were granted access to the hidden courses “Date Magnet System,” “Operator” and “PTE,” the acronym for “Penetrating the Elite.”
The privileged IDs, according to the security researcher, could be cross-referenced against open source Telegram username databases to potentially identify some of the accounts. Some associates of Andrew Tate involved with the War Room were previously revealed in 2023.
And in 2024, hackers breached Andrew Tate’s online course known as “The Real World” and obtained 794,000 usernames, messages from 616 public and private chat servers, and 324,382 unique email addresses.
‘Find the target’s vulnerabilities’
The newly leaked material includes links to 76 paid course videos hosted on the video-sharing platform Rumble. The videos, which are not publicly visible on Rumble due to being unlisted, can be viewed by anyone who alters the exposed URLs to appear as if they were clicked from within the paid course. The security researcher said the necessary text to make the links appear that way was also present in the public code.
The videos cover topics such as money and public speaking, two issues that the brand advertises widely as part of its self-improvement material.
But a course called “Operator” instructs members on how to bribe government officials in other countries, including by offering “$20 to $50 for street level police.” It also gives pointers for resisting interrogation by government officials and mentions countersurveillance techniques, such as detecting tails.
The “Penetrating the Elite” course is not well known outside of War Room members. It teaches members investigative techniques to be used against wealthy and powerful people.
“The method it teaches is blunt: find the target’s vulnerabilities and exploit them,” the researcher said.
The course does not present the techniques as hypothetical, the researcher added, but instead as those that have been used in the real world. The course appears to have been put together by Andrew Tate associate Joule Sullivan, known online as “The Sartorial Shooter.” Sullivan says he is a former Australian military intelligence operator.
In one slide from the course viewed by Straight Arrow, the techniques are said to have been used successfully against a major Hollywood film director, a world-famous Ultimate Fighting Championship athlete, a Fortune 500 CEO and an Arab billionaire.
Another slide describes women as the No. 1 vulnerability of the elite: “They almost ALL have mistresses,” the slide says, “usually sugar daddy arrangements or high-class hookers.”
“On the boats,” the course materials say, “cocaine and hooker is what’s on those boats. Yes, in case you’re wondering. That is 100% of the yachting lifestyle.”
War Room members are told to exploit this weakness by showing things such as their “advanced knowledge, i.e. pimping principles.”
“Partake in taboo activities with them,” the slide says. “Cements the trust, really locks it in.”
“Think of yourself as an intelligence officer, but instead of going out and trying to recruit foreign politicians or foreign embassy staff, you’re going out, you’re trying to recruit ultra-high net worth individuals,” the course material says.
The ultimate goal of the course is financial gain: “Penetrate them, get paid.”
The researcher who discovered the material said Andrew Tate is profiting from a course “that teaches systematic exploitation of wealthy people using intelligence agency manipulation techniques, coercive control of women and normalization of illegal activity including insider trading and tax evasion.”
Controlling women
A section in the course offers instructions on controlling women — described as “building a bottom b—-.”
It instructs viewers to “have complete control of every area” of a woman’s life, including “her daily routine, the clothes she wears, the friends she hangs out with” and even “how she eats.”
Members are told to put women on strict eating plans with mandatory meal photos. Suggested punishment for violations include “a disciplining session in the evening, and not fun disciplining.”
The course materials portray naive women as the most valuable, such as those who are “loyal, classy village girls” who come from “religious families.”
Another course, the “Date Magnet System,” was hosted not on Rumble but on the video platform Cloudflare Stream. Although it was the only course that had a form of authorization to keep non-members from viewing it, the researcher said, the authorization was never actually enforced, once again allowing anyone with the videos’ URLs to download the content.
The course “teaches categorizing women into ‘exploitable types,’” the researcher said, “engineering what it calls compliance thresholds, manufacturing a fake lifestyle to appear authentic, and industrial-scale cold outreach (members are instructed to run at roughly 20 women per day).”
The download links to the Mega archives contain “raw material meant to be trimmed and scored with music for promos,” the security researcher said. Faces that are typically blurred in course material are also unblurred. The content includes footage from private events held by Andrew Tate.
“That means you can actually see who’s in Tate’s circle at these events and what they say in private,” the researcher says. “It’s not just dinners; it’s their summits, feasts, in-person courses and training, adventures, speeches,” and other content filmed in locations including Romania, Dubai, Medellin, Miami and Las Vegas.
Round out your reading
- All your questions about napping, answered.
- Trump’s $5,000 promise echoes past payouts that never materialized.
- Inside the effort to make data centers pay their share of electricity costs.
- Why did the Feds seize the ’largest Martian meteorite on Earth’?
- Photos and video show exactly where and when Trump visited Ground Zero after 9/11.
