British Defense Ministry officials mistakenly sent classified emails to Mali due to a typo in the domain name, writes BI. Earlier, due to a similar error, millions of emails from the US military were sent there.
The US was sending sensitive information to the Russian-allied African nation of Mali because of an accidental typo — and it wasn’t just them.
UK Department of Defense officials have also sent secret emails to Mali, due to the same error. This was reported by The Times newspaper, which received five emails from British addresses.
It is alleged that officials in the UK Department of Defense made a typo in the domain name when trying to contact their American counterparts (.ml instead of .mil). As a result, instead of the American military letters went to Mali.
“We launched an investigation after a small number of emails were mistakenly sent to the wrong email domain,” a spokesman for the UK Department of Defense said. “We are confident that they did not contain information that could compromise operational security or technical data.” .
The Times report did not indicate to which time period the correspondence refers. The total number of letters sent from the UK to Mali is also unclear.
Earlier this month, the Financial Times reported that millions of U.S. military emails accidentally ended up in Mali. Dutch businessman Johannes Zuurbier, who managed Mali’s email domain under contract, told the newspaper that he had tried unsuccessfully to warn the US for the past ten years.
Source : inosmi
