Millions of confidential US military emails were mistakenly sent to Mali

According to the report of the Financial Times, a simple typo caused millions of classified emails of the US military to be sent to the domains of the country of Mali. These emails include diplomatic information, passwords and travel information of US military commanders.

The mentioned problem, which is due to the use of the ml domain. in the email address instead of mil. It happened, it was apparently observed 10 years ago by Johannes Zurbier. The Dutch Zorbir has been in charge of managing financial domains under a contract and despite sending numerous emails to America, he could not prevent this problem. This is despite the fact that the government of Mali has close relations with Russia, and with the completion of the Zubeir contract, the government of Mali can access the contents of the mentioned emails.

According to Zorbir, about 1,000 emails were sent to the domain of the financial government in the last week alone, and there is a possibility that these emails will be misused by America’s enemies. These emails also include the information of some US military personnel and contractors, medical information of these people, pictures of camps, contracts and several other items. Tim Gorman, Pentagon spokesman, announced that the US Department of Defense was aware of this problem and intercepted all the mentioned emails before reaching their destination.

Source: DigitalTrends