Lieutenant Commander Tim Gorman, speaking on behalf of the Pentagon, acknowledged the issue and stressed that the Department of Defense takes unauthorized disclosures of controlled national security information seriously. Gorman stated that emails sent from the .MIL domain to .ML addresses are blocked before leaving the .mil domain, and the senders are notified to validate the email addresses of the intended recipients. This suggests that the misdirected emails may have originated from personal accounts of US military personnel.
