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Jaguar Land Rover Cyber Incident Severely Disrupts Production, Retail Operations

The company reports a controlled restart after taking core systems offline to contain the breach.

Overview

  • JLR says it proactively shut down systems over the weekend and is working at pace to restart global applications in a controlled manner.
  • The automaker reports no evidence so far of customer data theft, and there has been no public attribution of responsibility.
  • Operations at UK sites were stood down, with Halewood staff told not to report for shifts and disruption also reported at Solihull.
  • Dealers in the UK were unable to register new cars on September 1, a key plate-change day, extending the impact to sales and deliveries.
  • Tata Motors disclosed "global IT issues" to the Indian stock exchange as experts highlighted the risks from IT/OT interconnections and suppliers reported temporary layoffs.