{"id":20135,"date":"2025-09-20T06:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/inside-the-jaguar-land-rover-hack-stalled-smart-factories-outsourced-cybersecurity-and-supply-chain-woes\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:37:27","slug":"inside-the-jaguar-land-rover-hack-stalled-smart-factories-outsourced-cybersecurity-and-supply-chain-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/inside-the-jaguar-land-rover-hack-stalled-smart-factories-outsourced-cybersecurity-and-supply-chain-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a carmaker where \u2018everything is connected\u2019 has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems<\/p>\n<p>The first external signs of the chaos about to hit JLR, Britain\u2019s largest automotive employer, came on the quiet last Sunday of August. Managers at a factory in Halewood, Merseyside, told industry contacts there might have been a hack \u2013 although it was not clear then just how bad the situation was.<\/p>\n<p>That changed quickly on the Monday morning. JLR, the maker of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands, quickly shut down systems after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/sep\/02\/jaguar-land-rover-cyber-incident-manufacturing-retail\">realising the severity of the cyber-attack<\/a>. Three weeks later, the carmaker is still incapacitated, unable to produce at any of its factories across the UK, Slovakia, Brazil and India (although a Chinese joint venture is thought to be operating).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/sep\/20\/jaguar-land-rover-hack-factories-cybersecurity-jlr\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/39542fc1e28250cec2bdfd108f3f0344b0f5dadc\/772_85_3196_2555\/master\/3196.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a82d1ffa85396d80d9c64e54f1f4bcfe\" title=\"Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes\" \/>Being a carmaker where \u2018everything is connected\u2019 has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems<br \/>\nThe first external signs of the chaos about to hit JLR, Britain\u2019s largest automotive employer, came on the quiet last Sunday of August. Managers at a factory in Halewood, Merseyside, told industry contacts there might have been a hack \u2013 although it was not clear then just how bad the situation was.<br \/>\nThat changed quickly on the Monday morning. JLR, the maker of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands, quickly shut down systems after realising the severity of the cyber-attack. Three weeks later, the carmaker is still incapacitated, unable to produce at any of its factories across the UK, Slovakia, Brazil and India (although a Chinese joint venture is thought to be operating). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a carmaker where \u2018everything is connected\u2019 has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems The first external signs of the chaos about to hit JLR, Britain\u2019s largest automotive employer, came on the quiet last Sunday of August. Managers at a factory in Halewood, Merseyside, told industry &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/inside-the-jaguar-land-rover-hack-stalled-smart-factories-outsourced-cybersecurity-and-supply-chain-woes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside the Jaguar Land Rover hack: stalled smart factories, outsourced cybersecurity and supply chain woes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}