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Singtel fined $1M for October 2024 outage affecting 500K users due to flawed system design.
Singtel was fined $1 million by Singapore’s IMDA for a four-hour nationwide landline outage on October 8, 2024, affecting 500,000 users and disrupting emergency and public services.
The outage, caused by a technical flaw, occurred when Singtel ran its voice firewall and broadband monitoring systems on shared hardware, leading to memory overload during a traffic surge.
A failed failover mechanism caused repeated call drops.
IMDA ruled the incident preventable and not due to a cyberattack, stressing the need for high reliability among critical providers.
Singtel has since separated systems and added safeguards, while IMDA is requiring other key providers to review similar risks.
Singtel fue multado con $ 1M por la interrupción de octubre de 2024 que afectó a 500K usuarios debido al diseño defectuoso del sistema.