What happened on 28th July 2023 - With your comments in the Web
On Friday, the BBC reported on the MoD accidentally emailing Russian ally instead of the US colleagues. The emails were intended for the US military, which uses the domain name ".mil". But they missed out the letter i, and so the messages went instead to the West African nation of Mali. Defence officials say the emails did not contain information that could compromise operational security. The mistake, they said, involved only a small number of emails being sent to Mali, whose email domain is ".ml". "We have opened an investigation after a small number of emails were mistakenly forwarded to an incorrect email domain," an MoD spokesman told PA news agency. "We are confident they did not contain any information that could compromise operational security or technical data." The spokesman added that all sensitive information used by the government department was "shared on systems designed to minimise the risk of misdirection". Ye...