{"id":1987163,"date":"2023-07-31T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-and-uk-accidentally-emailed-sensitive-info-to-a-russian-ally-because-of-a-typo\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:12:33","slug":"us-and-uk-accidentally-emailed-sensitive-info-to-a-russian-ally-because-of-a-typo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-and-uk-accidentally-emailed-sensitive-info-to-a-russian-ally-because-of-a-typo\/","title":{"rendered":"Typo leads US and UK to mistakenly email sensitive info to Russian ally."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fus-and-uk-accidentally-emailed-sensitive-info-to-a-russian-ally-because-of-a-typo%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=1987163&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>Emails Sent to Mali Instead of U.S. Military: A Costly\u2062 Typo<\/h2>\n<p>For years, \u200demails intended for members of the U.S. military were\u200b mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally in Africa, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>The blunder occurred due to a simple \u2063typo that confused\u200c the Pentagon&#8217;s &#8220;.mil&#8221; domain \u2064with\u2063 Mali&#8217;s &#8220;.ml&#8221;\u200d suffix.\u200b This oversight\u200b led to sensitive information\u2063 potentially\u2064 reaching the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>The error was brought to \u2062the attention \u200cof \u2063U.S. military officials by Johannes Zuurbier, \u200ba tech \u2062entrepreneur who had been hired by Mali&#8217;s\u2062 government\u2062 to manage their\u200b internet domain. Despite his efforts to alert \u200bU.S. officials, no action \u200bhad been taken.<\/p>\n<p>Zuurbier recently \u2063wrote\u200d to \u2063the Pentagon, highlighting the issue and \u2064informing them that\u2063 his\u200c contract to run Russia&#8217;s African ally&#8217;s \u2064domain was ending soon.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of private messages were mistakenly sent\u200b to the wrong \u200baddress, some containing details about military personnel and their travel itineraries. Shockingly, even the travel itinerary of U.S. Army Chief of Staff \u200bGen.\u200d James McConville, including his room number and security information, \u2062was sent to this incorrect domain.<\/p>\n<p>Although none of\u200b the\u2062 sensitive information was marked classified, it included highly sensitive data\u2064 on serving U.S. military personnel, contractors, and their families. The contents ranged from X-rays and medical data to identity documents, crew\u200d lists, maps, photos, contracts, and even tax and\u200b financial\u2063 records.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has taken measures to \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-gif-tiff-sparks-mandatory-anti-racism-training-at-cornell\/\" title=\"Kamala GIF Tiff Sparks Mandatory \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Training at Cornell\">prevent similar incidents<\/a> from occurring in the\u2062 future.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the same URL issue also\u2063 resulted in privileged emails \u2064from the U.K. being \u200csent to Mali instead of the Pentagon. The U.K.&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/egypt-holds-parade-of-mummies-to-reignite-tourist-interest\/\" title=\"Egypt holds \u2018Parade of Mummies\u2019 to reignite tourist interest\">top military officials<\/a> are currently investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">(1\/2) This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-and-uk-accidentally-emailed-sensitive-info-to-a-russian-ally-because-of-a-typo\/\" title=\"Typo leads US and UK to mistakenly email sensitive info to Russian ally.\">report \u2062misleadingly claims state secrets<\/a> were sent to \u2063Mali\u2019s email domain. We assess fewer than 20 routine emails were sent\u2064 to\u200b an incorrect domain &#038; are confident \u2064there was no breach of\u2063 operational\u2063 security or disclosure of technical \u200ddata.\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/frvgl3PE8C\">https:\/\/t.co\/frvgl3PE8C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ministry of Defence\u200d  (@DefenceHQ) \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceHQ\/status\/1684858941480615937?\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.K. Ministry of\u200b Defence clarified that fewer than 20 \u200croutine \u200demails \u2063were sent to the \u200dwrong domain and assured that \u2064there \u200cwas no breach of operational security or disclosure \u2064of technical data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">(2\/2) An investigation is ongoing.\u200d Emails of this kind are not\u2063 classified at secret or \u2063above.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ministry of\u2064 Defence \u2064\u200b (@DefenceHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceHQ\/status\/1684859119453220865?\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times reported that some British military emails, meant for the Pentagon, contained vacation\u2062 schedules for military officers and detailed descriptions of weapons like hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>It is a \u2063stark reminder of how \u200ca small \u2063typo can have significant consequences, leading to the unintentional exposure of sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-uk-accidentally-emailed-sensitive-info-russian-ally-typo\/\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emails meant for U.S. military members were mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, for years. Pentagon and U.K. Ministry of Defence officials made typos, confusing the Pentagon&#8217;s &#8220;.mil&#8221; domain with Mali&#8217;s country code. Multiple reports confirm this error, highlighting the inadvertent communication with the wrong recipients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1987165,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1987163","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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}