Due to a simple email address typo, millions of sensitive US military emails have been sent to Mali, raising security concerns.
in early July, Zuurbier expressed concern that adversaries of the US could exploit the actual risk posed by the sensitive data contained in over 117,000 emails he has collected. He added that nearly 1,000 more arrived last Wednesday alone, containing sensitive data about US military personnel, contractors, and families, although none of the messages were classified.
Exposed information includes travel plans, maps, photos, identity documents, crew lists, tax and financial records, medical data, naval reports, contracts, complaints, investigations, and a diplomatic letter warning PKK operations. “If you have this kind of sustained access, you can generate intelligence even from unclassified information,” said NSA head and retired four-star US Navy Admiral Mike Rogers to the. Rogers says this isn’t uncommon, noting that people making mistakes isn’t out of the norm. However, he adds, “The question is the scale, the duration, and the sensitivity of the information.”Times
that the Department of Defense “is aware of this issue and takes all unauthorized disclosures of controlled national security information or controlled unclassified information seriously.” According to him, emails sent from a ".MIL" address to a ".ML" address are blocked within the .MIL domain and the sender is notified to validate the email addresses of the intended recipients.
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