by the BBC
By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered. A missing dot might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves. Over six months they grabbed 20GB of data made up of 120,000 wrongly sent messages. Some of the intercepted correspondence contained user names, passwords, and details of corporate networks. About 30% of the top 500 companies in the US were vulnerable to this security shortcoming according to researchers Peter Kim and Garret Gee of the Godai Group.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14842691
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