A “small number” of emails intended for the Pentagon were sent to Mali because of the accidental omission of an “i” from an email address. British officials sent the messages to an address ending with the west African country’s .ml domain, rather than the US military’s .mil. The same error in the US was revealed last week to have resulted in millions of military emails going to Mali. An MoD spokesman said: “We have opened an investigation after a small number of emails were mistakenly forwarded to an incorrect email domain. “All sensitive information is shared on systems designed to minimise the risk of misdirection.

Source: The Times July 27, 2023 22:34 UTC