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The UK Ministry of Defence said it has launched an investigation into the matter.
  • British officials have been accidentally sending emails containing classified information to Mali.
  • Officials misspelled the domain name as ".ml" when it should have been ".mil," per The Times.
  • Millions of US military emails were sent to Mali due to the same error, the FT previously reported.

The US accidentally sent sensitive information to Mali, a Russian-allied country, due to a typing error — and they're not the only ones.