Collateral spammage: Typo redirects millions of Pentagon emails to MaliBy Caitlin Doornbos
July 17, 2023
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is again suffering the fallout from another massive information leak — but instead of a rogue Air National Guardsman posting documents on a Discord server, this time the culprit is a missing letter “i.”
Millions of emails meant for Defense Department “.mil” addresses have instead ended up in Malian government “.ml” domain name inboxes.
“The Department of Defense is aware of this issue and takes all unauthorized disclosures of controlled national security information or controlled unclassified information seriously,” the Pentagon said in a statement Monday.
The messages range from the mundane to the highly sensitive and include tax returns, password retrievals, diplomatic documents and official travel arrangements for top officers, according to the Financial Times, which first reported on the breach.
The typos were first noticed nearly 10 years ago by Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier, who had a contract to manage the African nation’s domain.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/17/collateral-spammage-typo-redirects-millions-of-pentagon-emails-to-mali/
