Pentagon Acknowledges Emails Intended for .mil Addresses Sent to .ml Instead

Millions of emails meant for U.S. military personnel were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the past 10 years due to typos caused by how similar Pentagon email addresses are to the domain for the African country, according to multiple reports. The misdirected emails included sensitive information such as diplomatic documents, medical data, maps and photos of installations, identity document information, passwords, tax returns and hotel reservations for senior officers, according to Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch technologist who discovered the problem in 2013.