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flag Singtel fined $1M for October 2024 outage affecting 500K users due to flawed system design.

flag 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. flag 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. flag A failed failover mechanism caused repeated call drops. flag IMDA ruled the incident preventable and not due to a cyberattack, stressing the need for high reliability among critical providers. flag Singtel has since separated systems and added safeguards, while IMDA is requiring other key providers to review similar risks.

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