{"id":1985359,"date":"2023-07-28T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/typo-leads-to-u-k-accidentally-sending-military-emails-meant-for-u-s-to-russian-ally\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:34:14","slug":"typo-leads-to-u-k-accidentally-sending-military-emails-meant-for-u-s-to-russian-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/typo-leads-to-u-k-accidentally-sending-military-emails-meant-for-u-s-to-russian-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Typo causes U.K. to mistakenly send military emails to Russian ally instead of U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftypo-leads-to-u-k-accidentally-sending-military-emails-meant-for-u-s-to-russian-ally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1985359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The \u200cU.K. Defense Ministry&#8217;s Email Mishap: \u200cMali Receives Military Correspondence<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an unfortunate turn of events, the U.K. Defense Ministry mistakenly sent\u2062 a batch of\u200c emails\u200b intended for the Pentagon to the government of\u200c Mali. This typo occurred when British officials left out\u200d the &#8220;i&#8221; in \u2064the\u200d Pentagon&#8217;s domain name, resulting in the emails being sent to Mali instead. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not the\u200c first time such\u200d an error has occurred.\u2064 Earlier this month, millions of emails, including \u200csensitive information,\u200c were inadvertently sent to Mali due to the same typing \u200cmistake, as revealed by\u2062 a Financial Times investigation.\u200d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u200dDefense Ministry \u2064spokesperson acknowledged the mistake and \u2062stated that an investigation\u2064 has \u2062been initiated to address the issue. According\u2064 to Reuters, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-takes-us-citizen-captive-after-demilitarized-zone-incident\/\" title=\"US Citizen Captured by North Korea Following DMZ Incident\">small \u2064number<\/a> of emails \u200bwere mistakenly forwarded \u200dto \u2064the incorrect email\u2062 domain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, most of the\u2062 emails sent to the Mali \u2062government \u2064contained harmless\u200b information, such as vacation schedules\u2062 of\u200b Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry\u200c employees. However, \u2064the \u2063Times reported that some\u2062 emails did contain detailed\u2062 information on British research into \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-arctic-incursion-spooks-lawmakers\/\" title=\"Chinese Arctic Incursion Spooks Lawmakers\">hypersonic missiles<\/a>. The U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-week-in-campus-insanity-vol-36\/\" title=\"This Week In Campus Insanity Vol. 36\">government denied<\/a> this claim, asserting that fewer than 20 routine emails\u200d were sent to \u200cthe incorrect domain and that there was no breach of \u2063operational\u200b security or \u200ddisclosure\u2063 of technical data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u200dissue of similar\u2062 domain names \u2064between the Pentagon\u2063 and \u2064the Mali government has been a persistent problem for the\u200d past decade. Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur who had\u2062 control of Mali&#8217;s domain, highlighted\u200b this risk to the\u2063 U.S. in early July.\u200c He warned that adversaries could exploit this \u2062situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">potentially compromising<\/a> U.S. security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is\u200c worth noting that the Mali government has close ties to Moscow and has \u200drecently \u2064received promises of \u2062free grain\u200c from Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u2063 Colonel Assimi Go\u00efta, who \u200bgoverns the country, has relied on the Russian mercenary group Wagner to maintain control in the \u200cunstable Western African nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO\u200b GET\u2063 THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To prevent future mishaps,\u200b it\u2064 is crucial\u2062 to raise awareness about the dangers of using the &#8220;ml&#8221; \u200ddomain. As\u200c Zuurbier warned,\u2063 any\u200c mistypes in\u2063 the future could\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/typo-leads-to-u-k-accidentally-sending-military-emails-meant-for-u-s-to-russian-ally\/\" title=\"Typo causes U.K. to mistakenly send military emails to Russian ally instead of U.S.\">potentially expose sensitive \u2064material<\/a> to adversaries of\u200b the U.S., as Mali could\u200b share such information with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Defense Ministry accidentally sent emails to Mali instead of the Pentagon due to a typo in the domain name. By omitting the &#8220;i&#8221; in &#8220;.mil,&#8221; the emails were mistakenly directed to Mali, a country with strong connections to Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1985360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}