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MDDI’s Latest Statement on Global Outage Affecting IT Systems Around the World

20 July 2024

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  1. As of 6.00am this morning (20 Jul 2024), most companies that were affected by the outage have restored their services to the public. These include airline check-in services, newspapers, radio, and postal services.

  2. SingCert has issued an advisory outlining steps for administrators and users of affected systems to mitigate the impact: https://www.facebook.com/share/Hri1cNxtfiM9Yi7W/?mibextid=WC7FNe

  3. The Ministry of Digital Development and Information is closely monitoring the situation and will provide assistance to the companies if required.

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