Cybersecurity Breach Leads to Major Disruption at Jaguar Land Rover

In a major cybersecurity incident which has caused major disruption to the operations of Jaguar Land Rover, it highlights the growing vulnerability of automakers across the world to cyberattacks, underlining the increasing need to maintain communication channels between automakers and their customers. 

In a statement released on September 2, the British luxury car manufacturer said that the attack had severely disrupted its core computer systems. This led to the suspension of production across the company’s UK assembly plants and ripple effects throughout the entire organisation, including global operations, supply chain coordination, and manufacturing engineering. 

Having taken proactive measures to counter the threat, JLR disabled several key systems, resulting in widespread problems in how suppliers and logistics partners could communicate in real-time with one another.

Although the company has not yet provided any details concerning the ransomware or any other forms of malicious code that were responsible for the breach, the company has stated that its internal security experts are working closely with external cyber experts to investigate it, with critical systems currently being restored in a “controlled fashion” under the guidance of external cyber experts.

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