The scale of the damage from the cyberattack turned out to be so significant that as of mid-September the plant had not resumed operations, and it is estimated that it will not be possible to resume activity until September 24. Each day of downtime costs Jaguar Land Rover approximately 5 million pounds sterling (about $6.8 million).
Since the assembly lines are halted, a significant part of the automaker's staff, as well as employees of supplier companies, are forced to take forced leave. Jaguar Land Rover management has appealed to the UK government for state payments — modeled on the compensations that were in effect during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The hacker group Scattered Lapsus$ claimed responsibility for the incident, which has had high-profile cases before: it was the one that hacked the networks of retailer Marks & Spencer, whose operations were then blocked for seven weeks and caused the company losses of hundreds of millions of pounds. What exactly drove the attackers this time, they have not yet disclosed.
