There was a very important security breach in US intelligence. Pentagon Hundreds of thousands of e-mails prepared by the company were forwarded to a different e-mail address due to a typo. This resulted in the disclosure of extremely sensitive information.
Pentagon has been sending confidential information over email for 10 years
According to new documents appearing in the US press, a remarkable error has been occurring in the Pentagon for about 10 years. When sending military documents via e-mail “.SHAFT” instead of the domain name extension of Mali the one which “.MLIt was stated that it was sent to the address ”.
People who sent documents to the wrong address in the Pentagon caused quite a lot of abuse. Internet entrepreneur responsible for managing Mali’s country domain Johannes Zuurbier He stated that so far the situation has not led to any leaks.
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In an effort to encourage the US to address the issue, Zuurbier has collected misdirected emails since January. Stating that he has now received more than 100,000 e-mails from the Pentagon, the entrepreneur said that his contract will expire soon.
Management after Zuurbier Mali, which has close ties with Russia will pass to the government. In other words, emails sent to “.ML” instead of “.MIL” will be directly visible to the Russian government.
While the majority of emails are spam, some messages contain sensitive information about US military personnel and their families. These include diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords, travel information and medical data.
Tim Gorman, a Pentagon spokesman, acknowledged the problem and said they take the disclosure of national security information seriously. He also stated that they are working on automatically blocking emails sent to the “.ML” domain.