Millions of emails intended for Pentagon employees were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the last decade because of typos caused by the similarity of the US military’s email address and the domain for the West African country.
In some cases, sensitive information like hotel reservations for senior US military officials were revealed. The emails were intended for owners of “.MIL” email accounts – the internet domain owned by the US military – but because of typos they were instead sent to the .ML domain, which handles email accounts in the West African country of Mali. The email mishap reveals the security risks to US national security officials that can arise from an innocent typo.
Many of the emails are spam, but some are sensitive. One of the misdirected emails contained hotel room numbers for the Army chief of staff, Gen. James McConville, and his entourage on a trip they took in May to Indonesia. And while the US government can’t prevent outside users from mistyping emails intended for the government, some of those making the typos were US government employees.
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