Research started British Ministry of Defenceas he announced that emails containing classified information, instead of being sent to American Pentagon, were sent to Mali authorities, a country that is a close ally of Russia. This misunderstanding happened due to a typographical error.
A “small number” of emails intended for the US Pentagon were sent to email addresses at Yes due to the omission of the letter “i” from an email address. British officials sent the messages to an email address ending with domain “.ml” of the West African country and not the “.mil” of the US Army.
The same mistake was revealed to have happened last week in the US, resulting in millions of content emails military intelligence to end up at addresses in Mali.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We launched an investigation after a small number of emails were accidentally forwarded to the wrong email domain. We are sure that they did not contain any information that could compromise operational security or technical data. All sensitive information is shared in systems designed to minimize the risk of it being sent to wrong addresses.’
The Yes is among the six African countries promised free grain shipments by Russian President Vladimir Putinfollowing Moscow’s withdrawal from the Black Sea agreement.
At the same time, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner is present in Mali and is accused of committing “executions and torture».
Source: News Beast
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