Jaguar Land Rover production disrupted by cyber incident
Following claims from hacker collectives linked to recent retail cyber-attacks, JLR shut down systems and is now investigating while working to restore services.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has confirmed its production and retail operations were ‘severely disrupted’ due to a cyber incident, prompting a precautionary system shutdown.
The company stated there is currently ‘no evidence’ that any customer data has been compromised and assured it is working at pace to restore systems in a controlled manner.
The incident disrupted output at key UK plants, including Halewood and Solihull, led to operational bottlenecks such as halted vehicle registrations, and impacted a peak retail period following the release of ’75’ number plates.
A Telegram group named Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, a conflation of known hacking collectives, claimed responsibility, posting what appeared to be internal logs. Cybersecurity experts caution that such claims should be viewed sceptically, as attribution via Telegram may be misleading.
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