伦敦-一个小小的拼写错误导致数千封原本发给美国军方的电子邮件被发送到马里，五角大楼官员表示，他们已经采取措施缓解这一问题。

美国军方电子邮件使用的后缀是。mil，但是错误地漏掉“I”会导致电子邮件被重定向到。西非国家马里政府使用的域名。

“自2015年以来，国防部已经意识到，打字错误可能会导致发往a’的非机密电子邮件被误导。mil“收件人”。美国国防部发言人、陆军少校蒂姆·戈尔曼告诉美国广播公司新闻。

2020年10月8日，美国弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的五角大楼。

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据报道，一些发送到马里的电子邮件包含五角大楼的敏感信息，如外交文件、密码和高级国防官员的旅行路线。

五角大楼发言人萨布丽娜·辛格(Sabrina Singh)表示，美国官员“意识到这些未经授权披露的受控国家安全信息”，说星期一。

对着金融时报Johannes Zuurbier是一名荷兰互联网企业家，他签有一份管理马里县域的合同，他说他在大约十年前就发现了这个问题。Zuurbier说，自1月份以来，他一直在收集被误导的电子邮件，以努力向美国当局提出这一问题，他说，他已经收到了近117，000封被误导的邮件。

他告诉该报，一天之内，Zuurbier收到了1000封因打字错误而被误转的电子邮件。

他说，没有一封被重定向的电子邮件被标记为“机密”，但据报道，一些邮件包含“高度敏感”的数据，包括现役美国军事人员、官方行程、合同、地图和基地图像的信息。

五角大楼表示，他们已经采取措施阻止发送的电子邮件被发送到错误的域名。

“该部门严肃对待所有受控国家安全信息或受控非机密信息的披露，国防信息系统局(DISA)开始阻止。戈尔曼说。

他补充说，“到2023年，国防信息系统局(DISA)拦截的出站电子邮件达到135封。ml域和子域。2023年7月，DISA开始阻止向整个。能够允许合法电子邮件的ml域。”

国防部表示，它正在与跨部门、行业合作伙伴和国际盟友协调，以提醒他们由于印刷错误而未经授权披露信息的可能性。

马里政府没有回应ABC新闻的置评请求。

US military emails sent to Mali because of common typo

LONDON --A small spelling error has resulted in thousands of emails intended for the U.S. military being sent instead to Mali, an issue that Pentagon officials said they've taken steps to mitigate.

The suffix used for U.S. military emails is .mil, but leaving the "i" out by mistake would result in the email being redirected to .ml -- the domain used by government of the West African nation Mali.

"Since 2015, the Department of Defense has been aware that typographical errors could result in the misdirection of unclassified emails intended for a '.mil' recipient to the '.ml' domain," Lt. Commander Tim Gorman, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson, told ABC News.

Some of the emails sent to Mali reportedly reportedly contained sensitive Pentagon information such as diplomatic documents, passwords and the travel itinerary of top defense officers.

U.S. officials are "aware of these unauthorized disclosures of controlled national security information," Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokesperson,saidon Monday.

Speaking to theFinancial Times, Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur who has a contract to manage Mali's county domain, said he identified the problem almost a decade ago. Zuurbier, who said has been collecting misdirected emails since January in effort to flag the issue to U.S. authorities, said he has close to 117,000 misdirected messages.

In one day, Zuurbier receiving 1,000 misdirected emails arrived as a result of the typo, he told the newspaper.

None of the redirected emails were marked as "classified," however some are reported to have contained "highly sensitive" data including information on serving U.S. military personnel, official itineraries, contracts, maps and images of bases, he said.

The Pentagon said it's taken steps to stop outgoing emails from being sent to the incorrect domain.

"The Department takes all disclosures of Controlled National Security Information or Controlled Unclassified Information seriously and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) began blocking .ml lookalike domains immediately," Gorman said.

He added, "By 2023, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) was blocking outbound emails to 135 .ml domains and subdomains. In July 2023, DISA began blocking outbound email to the entire .ml domain with the ability to allow legitimate emails."

The Department of Defense says it is coordinating with interagency, industry partners and international allies to alert them to the possibility of unauthorized disclosure of information due to the typographical error.

Mali's government did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.