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SPH Magazines

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Severity

High

Financial impact

$19K

Discovered

Filed

Feb 11, 2020

To disclose

Affected

685,393

Confidence

90%
Full breach record for SPH Magazines

Regulator's decision — not a breach notification

This record is a regulator's decision, not the organisation's own breach notice. Breach-notification fields (discovery date, notification clock) are structurally absent — what this source establishes is the outcome and the provisions the decision cites.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Feb 11, 2020

Filed

No linked breach filing · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a breach filing is linked. This record is the regulator's action, not a breach notice. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • outcome + obligations
  • fine (SGD) and affected count where a grounds document states them
  • discovery date
  • notification clock

See the underlying breach notice, if any.