Millions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error.

Emails intended for the US military’s “.mil” domain have, for years, been sent to the west African country which ends with the “.ml” suffix.

Some of the emails reportedly contained sensitive information such as passwords, medical records and the itineraries of top officers.

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    11 year ago

    Given it’s the military you would hope nothing actually serious was sent via email in the first place at least on a system connected to the internet. Yes personal records etc are important but they’re rarely if ever national secrets.