Millions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error.

Emails intended for the US military’s “.mil” domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the “.ml” suffix.

Some of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.

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    1 year ago

    which I would hope is trivial for them to do without requiring the job to be bid on…

    As someone with moderate experience working for the federal government, I wish I had your hopes