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A major cyber attack has forced Jaguar Land Rover to halt car production worldwide. Operations are stopped at global factories, impacting sales and deliveries. The disruption could cost millions daily. JLR is working on a controlled system restart with law enforcement. #Jaguar #LandRover #CyberAttack #CarProduction #ITsecurity
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Major cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover
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has forced the company to shut down its
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car production across the world. That's
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what IV News understands. Operations
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have stopped at all of its global
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factories and it's struggling to sell,
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register, or deliver its vehicles. It
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could be costing the manufacturer
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millions of pounds in lost revenue every
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day. One insider told us the impact was
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catastrophic. It's not known who's
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responsible despite several groups of
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hackers claiming it was them. Our
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business editor Joel Hills reports.
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The shift change in Soie Hull was
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unusually quiet today. No cars have been
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built at this factory or any other since
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Sunday. Jaguar Land Rover has told many
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workers to stay at home. Rau was asked
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to come in. What have you been doing
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today?
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Nothing. I still for nothing. I don't do
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nothing.
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Office staff are still in. They're
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trying to go counter build a new system
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and everything to try and counter out
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the hack. But apart from that, this just
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the managers are in really trying to
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figure out what to do with everybody.
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JLR has suspended production worldwide
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in India, China, Brazil, and Slovakia.
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The cyber attack has forced the company
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to shut down all of its IT systems.
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Jaguar Land Rover built 400,000 cars
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last year. Just over 250,000 of those
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were made in Britain, where the company
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employs almost 33,000 people, more than
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any other car maker in the UK. JLR says
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it's working on a controlled restart of
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its computer system. But for now, the
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company struggling to register new
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vehicles with the DVLA, to order parts,
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and to book shipments for export. A
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source familiar with the situation at
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Jaguar Land Rover has told ITV News,
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"This is catastrophic. It's a complete
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shutdown. Given everything else going on
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in the industry, the shift to
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electrification and President Trump's
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tariffs, it's the last thing the company
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needs. The longer this lasts, the more
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likely it is the government will have to
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step in with some form of financial
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support, particularly for JLR's
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suppliers.
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Well, JLR produce about a thousand cars
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a day globally. That generates a profit
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for them every day of about5 million
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pounds. So, that's the loss in profit
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every day. So, this is quite serious.
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It's very serious indeed. Essentially,
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their global operations have grown to a
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halt.
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JLR hasn't said who carried out the
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cyber attack or how they got in. Earlier
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this year, Markson Spencer was forced to
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suspend its online sales for 15 weeks
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following a hack that ended up costing
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the business Β£300 million.
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The recovery from this attack of this
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magnitude can often be measured in
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months and not weeks. um and their
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silence on timelines um suggests that
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they're still assessing the full scope
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of what's happened and assessing the
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damage. In a statement, JLR told us that
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there's no evidence any customer data
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has been stolen, that retail and
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production activities have been severely
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disrupted, and that it is working with
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law enforcement agencies.
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