{"id":403277,"date":"2025-09-06T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403277\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:21:10","slug":"police-and-cyber-experts-brought-in-as-jlr-remains-crippled-by-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/403277\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and cyber experts brought in as JLR remains crippled by hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaguar<\/a>\u00a0Land Rover<\/a> is working with cybersecurity specialists and the police following a targeted cyber hack which has shut down production\u00a0until at least Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The British brand has been rebuilding its internal IT systems since they were breached on Monday, which also caused dealer sales, handovers and parts ordering\u00a0to stop.<\/p>\n

Autocar understands dealers are now manually registering cars while the systems remain down. Meanwhile,\u00a0the majority of workers at JLR\u2019s production\u00a0sites in the West Mldlands and Merseyside have been told not to return to work until 9 September.<\/p>\n

JLR told Autocar in a statement on Saturday that \u201cour retail partners remain open\u201d, adding: \u201cWe continue to work around the clock to restart our global applications in a controlled and safe manner following the recent cyber incident. We are working with third-party cybersecurity specialists and alongside law enforcement.<\/p>\n

JLR hack: what happened?<\/p>\n

On Monday, hackers claimed to have exploited a flaw in the British car maker\u2019s IT system.<\/p>\n

In an effort\u00a0to combat the hack, JLR said it began\u00a0\u201cshutting down our systems\u201d on Tuesday\u00a0and is still in the process of rebuilding them. JLR\u00a0was unable to confirm a timescale for the fix.<\/p>\n

Autocar understands that this caused production to stop at the Halewood technology site\u00a0as well as the Solihull plant,\u00a0where the\u00a0Range Rover\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Range Rover Sport<\/a>\u00a0are built.\u00a0JLR wouldn\u2019t comment on the claims.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool Echo reported that a notice sent to Halewood workers on 4 September told staff\u00a0to stay away, with a plan to “attend work as normal on Tuesday September 9 unless informed otherwise”.<\/p>\n

The issues are also affecting dealers, who are unable to order parts, can’t code parts they do have to cars, and are unable \u2013 in some instances \u2013 to complete customer handovers.<\/p>\n

In addition, they are\u00a0having to manually register vehicles. This involves phoning the DVLA in each instance.<\/p>\n

Autocar\u00a0first reported the issues affecting JLR on 1 September, when dealers\u00a0couldn’t register new cars\u00a0on\u00a0‘new plate\u00a0day’ , traditionally one of the year’s busiest for registrations.<\/p>\n

JLR’s public-facing website appears to be fully operational, including the car configurator.<\/p>\n

Who has claimed responsibility?<\/p>\n

On 3 September, Scattered Spider \u2013\u00a0the group that hacked Marks & Spencer in May,\u00a0causing seven weeks of disruption and costing \u00a3300 million\u00a0in lost operating profit \u2013\u00a0claimed responsibility for the attack on JLR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaguar\u00a0Land Rover is working with cybersecurity specialists and the police following a targeted cyber hack which has shut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115158744056502596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}