> Officials from the U.K. Ministry of Defense were supposed to be sending emails to the Pentagon, but accidentally sent them to Mali’s government instead, the Times reported Thursday. The mistake was the result of a typo, as the Pentagon’s domain name is “.mil,” while Mali’s is “.ml.”
> According to the Times, while most emails sent to Mali were innocuous — containing information such as dates when the employees from the foreign ministry were on holiday — others contained “detailed descriptions” of British research into hypersonic missiles.
> However, the Ministry of Defense said the Times’ claims were misleading.
> “This report misleadingly claims state secrets were sent to Mali’s email domain. We assess fewer than 20 routine emails were sent to an incorrect domain & are confident there was no breach of operational security or disclosure of technical data,” the ministry said Friday.
MoD has denied it, then it should be OK…
> Earlier this month, an investigation by the Financial Times found that millions of emails meant for the Pentagon have been sent to Mali as a result of the same typo. Some of these emails included sensitive information, such as diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and officers’ travel details, the investigation found
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Bluddy ‘ell.
This is something that would have made more sense of it was Canada’s Department of National Defense making that mistake.
I still think leaking classified tank specs to prove a video game community wrong still beats this.
What would even be the procedure here. Send another email asking them to ignore the previous million? Hope it just went to spam?
“Accidentally”
It’s politico, not reading this shit.
And then they ask why we not share all the plans
Woopsie
How is it possible that these mails are sent **UNENCRYPTED**, FFS!!!???
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>most emails sent to Mali were innocuous — containing information such as dates when the employees from the foreign ministry were on holiday
OK, so not that serious.
>others contained “detailed descriptions” of British research into hypersonic missiles.
Da fuq?
>The mistake was the result of a typo, as the Pentagon’s domain name is “.mil,” while Mali’s is “.ml.”
So the domain name is exactly the same except the .mil part? I wonder what was the full email?
army@gmail.mil?
> Officials from the U.K. Ministry of Defense were supposed to be sending emails to the Pentagon, but accidentally sent them to Mali’s government instead, the Times reported Thursday. The mistake was the result of a typo, as the Pentagon’s domain name is “.mil,” while Mali’s is “.ml.”
> According to the Times, while most emails sent to Mali were innocuous — containing information such as dates when the employees from the foreign ministry were on holiday — others contained “detailed descriptions” of British research into hypersonic missiles.
> However, the Ministry of Defense said the Times’ claims were misleading.
> “This report misleadingly claims state secrets were sent to Mali’s email domain. We assess fewer than 20 routine emails were sent to an incorrect domain & are confident there was no breach of operational security or disclosure of technical data,” the ministry said Friday.
MoD has denied it, then it should be OK…
> Earlier this month, an investigation by the Financial Times found that millions of emails meant for the Pentagon have been sent to Mali as a result of the same typo. Some of these emails included sensitive information, such as diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and officers’ travel details, the investigation found
💀
Bluddy ‘ell.
This is something that would have made more sense of it was Canada’s Department of National Defense making that mistake.
I still think leaking classified tank specs to prove a video game community wrong still beats this.
What would even be the procedure here. Send another email asking them to ignore the previous million? Hope it just went to spam?
“Accidentally”
It’s politico, not reading this shit.
And then they ask why we not share all the plans
Woopsie
How is it possible that these mails are sent **UNENCRYPTED**, FFS!!!???