TLDR: JLR loses £1 billion in revenue as cyberattack shuts down global production for 3+ weeks, with 40,000 vehicles stuck in digital limbo. While the company takes a methodical approach to recovery, suppliers face bankruptcy and the industry gets an expensive lesson in digital vulnerability.
Two and a half weeks ago, someone at Jaguar Land Rover clicked the wrong thing. We don’t know exactly what happened on August 31, but we do know the result: complete paralysis of one of Britain’s most important industrial companies. Not a slowdown. Not a disruption. A full stop.
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