US EditionJaguar Land Rover Cyber Attack Outage Continues - Systems Unlikely to Be Online for Another Week
Jaguar Land Rover faces losses of about 50 million weekly as ongoing cyberattack halts production at UK and global plants, threatening thousands of supply chain jobs.
- On Tuesday, Jaguar Land Rover extended its production pause until Wednesday 24 September as its forensic investigation of the cyber incident continues.
- After a cyberattack discovered on September 1, JLR has been working with third-party cybersecurity specialists and conducting a forensic investigation to rebuild its global applications.
- Production lines at Halewood, Solihull and other sites are halted, with no cars produced globally since the attack and factories in Merseyside, Wolverhampton, India, Slovakia and China at a standstill.
- Experts warn the extended halt could cost about �120 million, as JLR executives meet with the Department for Business and Trade, while Sharon Graham warns that `Thousands of these workers in the JLR supply chain now find their jobs are under an immediate threat because of the cyberattack`.
- A group known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is believed to have claimed responsibility, while analysts warn the disruption risks Britain's economy given JLR's role accounting for roughly 4% of goods exports last year.
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Jaguar Land Rover Extends Production Pause for Another Week After Cyber Attack
Jaguar Land Rover’s production pause has been extended until next Wednesday as the carmaker’s efforts to recover from a crippling cyber attack continue. The company has told staff, suppliers and partners that the factory shutdown will continue until September 24. “We have taken this decision as our forensic investigation of the cyber incident continues, and as we consider the different stages of the controlled restart of our global operations, w…
Jaguar Land Rover halts production for another week after cyberattack
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has extended its production halt for another week as it continues to deal with a cyberattack that occurred more than two weeks ago. The British luxury carmaker's factories in Merseyside, north-west England, and Solihull in the West Midlands, as well as facilities in India, Slovakia, and China, have been at a standstill since the IT network shutdown. In a recent update to suppliers, JLR stated that its "f…
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