Officials of the Ministry of Defense of United Kingdomas published The Times, accidentally sent emails containing classified information malia country with close ties to the kremlindue to a typing error.
The error is too simple, but at the same time fatal. British officials trying to contact the Pentagonwhich uses the domain “.mil”, mistakenly omitted the “i” and instead sent the messages to Maliwhich uses the domain “.ml”.
According to the British newspaper, most of the emails sent to mali contained trivial information, such as dates on which employees of the Ministry of Defence and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were on holiday, but others contained detailed descriptions of British investigations into hypersonic missiles. He Ministry of Defence has started an investigation.
Along the same lines, last week, an investigation by the Financial Times revealed that millions of military emails from USA were also mistakenly sent to mali due to typographical errors. The data breach was identified by johannes zuurbiera Dutch businessman, who was hired by the African country to manage the “.ml” domain.
Zuurbier He came to receive up to 20,000 emails. The messages included the travel plans of top US generals and the crew lists of the ships. The number eventually dropped to a few hundred a day after the Pentagon introduced measures reminding users not to send sensitive material to external inboxes.
For his part, a spokesman for the British Ministry of Defensequoted by The Times, has assured that they had opened an investigation, “after a small number of emails were mistakenly forwarded to an incorrect email domain.” The official assured that these messages “did not contain any information that could compromise operational security or technical data.”
