Clarification by Minister for Communications and Information

Mdm Speaker: Minister Yaacob.

The Minister for Communications and Information (Assoc Prof Dr Yaacob Ibrahim): Madam, thank you very much. I just want to clarify a reply I made to the hon Member Mr Yee about the timeline. [Please refer to "Breach of SingPass User Accounts", Official Report, 7 July 2014, Vol 92, Issue No 7, Oral Answers to Questions section.]

I do not want to confuse the matter. The timeline for the third quarter of 2015 is for the replacement of the current SingPass system which was provided for in a tender called in April this year. The two-factor authentication is something which I mentioned earlier. We are now asking all agencies with online transactions and sensitive data to implement two-factor authentication. The timeline is left to the agencies. They will actually reveal the timeline in the latter part of this year.