Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.

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.

  • Rhaedas@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    Making a typo that can send to the wrong place is a common error by anyone. Net security that allows it, presumably some of them from military intranets or in various correspondences without flagging it a problem, that’s a huge mistake. The solution was a patchwork to make the problem a future one, which is so government typical. Probably would have required some reprogramming in COBOL, and they couldn’t find anyone.