Jaguar Land Rover £2.1bn cyber attack was state sponsored

A former defence minister admits that the crippling £2.1 billion cyber attack was backed by a hostile foreign power.

The cyber hit on JLR last year is the most expensive in British history as it forced the company to halt production and threw 200,000 jobs in jeopardy as they struggled to resume operations for 5 weeks.

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New York Times investigation linked the JLR attack to a Russian hacking group.

In July, Al Carns MP was asked about how the UK could deter “threats in the absence of political leadership”, according to a report in The Telegraph. Mr Carns reportedly replied: “We have all the detail. We know all of the information, we know all of the threats. Sometimes it comes out sporadically, but it’s not a centrally coherent national conversation between government and society.

“We know there is £15bn of cyber-attacks, we know there’s espionage going on, we know there’s 35,000 casualties a month-ish in Ukraine. We know the Jaguar Land Rover attack was state-sponsored, etc, etc.”

This information is made national as the government advises UK citizens to "Be Ready" - a campaign which encourages 3 days of stockpiling food and supplies for emergencies including cyber attacks.

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