JLR Hack Costs £1.9bn; Recovery May Stretch to 2026

An independent Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) report estimates the late‑August cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover cost about £1.9bn (modelled range £1.6bn–£2.1bn) and affected more than 5,000 organisations. The CMC classified the incident as a Category 3 systemic event and said a near five‑ to six‑week IT shutdown halted production at JLR’s major UK plants — Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton — and disrupted dealer systems and multi‑tier suppliers. It found most losses resulted from lost manufacturing output, with JLR bearing more than half of the total cost, and warned the outage sparked supplier‑collapse risks. The government provided a £1.5bn loan guarantee to support suppliers. Production partially resumed in October, but the CMC warned full recovery may not be achieved until January 2026 and that costs could rise if restoration to pre‑attack levels is delayed.