Current Events > Millions of US military emails leaked to Mali web operator

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https://www.ft.com/content/ab62af67-ed2a-42d0-87eb-c762ac163cf0

Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali through a typo leak that has exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and the travel details of top officers. Despite repeated warnings over a decade, a steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses.

The problem was first identified almost a decade ago by Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur who has a contract to manage Malis country domain. Zuurbier has been collecting misdirected emails since January in an effort to persuade the US to take the issue seriously. He holds close to 117,000 misdirected messages almost 1,000 arrived on Wednesday alone. In a letter he sent to the US in early July, Zuurbier wrote: This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US.

Oopsie daisie

Good job dumbasses

it's trump again, isnt it

You know, I think it's time people stop pretending our government is capable of secret shadowy plots, like we see in our media and are capable of hiding things like alien lifeforms living among us, secret societies that have existed since the birth of the nation and secret spy battles where a victory or defeat could mean the difference between the nation existing tomorrow or never having existed in the first place, they're all just a bunch of fuckers

tremain07 posted...

You know, I think it's time people stop pretending our government is capable of secret shadowy plots, like we see in our media and are capable of hiding things like alien lifeforms living among us, secret societies that have existed since the birth of the nation and secret spy battles where a victory or defeat could mean the difference between the nation existing tomorrow or never having existed in the first place, they're all just a bunch of fuckers

it'll never be government-wide conspiracies, just small stuff. but the people involved will still make a lot of money until they're caught.

the smart people just use the incompetence to get away with stuff

Why are we so fucking bad at protecting online things god damn

Mr. Zuurbier carries the United States Army.

Oh god. :(

lol