Jaguar Land Rover’s Cyberattack Nightmare Could End Up Costing It Billions

The shutdown shuttered the automaker’s factories, threatening huge losses and delaying key new models.Angus MacKenzieWriter

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Jaguar Land Rover, hit by a cyberattack at the end of August that forced it to shut down its IT networks and manufacturing operations, has confirmed vehicle manufacturing will not restart at its factories until October 1 at the earliest. The BBC has reported the shutdown is costing JLR some $70 million a week in lost production, and that several of the company’s smaller suppliers are facing bankruptcy as a result. An analyst quoted by the Financial Times suggested the total revenue hit to the automaker could be as high as $4.7 billion if JLR is unable to produce vehicles until November.

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Reports that the cyberattack could cost JLR significantly more than the $2.4 billion pre-tax profit it reported for the financial year ending March 2025 resulted in a 4 percent slump in the stock price of its parent company, Tata Motors. The Financial Times says the impact on JLR’s profitability will be compounded by the fact the automaker did not have insurance coverage against a cyberattack and will have to bear the full cost.

A group calling itself Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, which has been behind several cyberattacks on major British retailers this year, has claimed responsibility for the JLR hack. The automaker, which has factories in the U.K., Slovakia, and India, and directly employs more than 30,000 people, said two weeks ago the hackers may have stolen data in the attack but has declined to reveal any specific details.

The cyberattack has come in the aftermath of JLR’s announcement of a 49 percent decrease in pre-tax profits in the three months to June 30 following the imposition by President Trump of steep tariffs on vehicles imported into the U.S. Unlike other luxury European automakers such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, JLR has no American manufacturing footprint, and the company paused shipments to the U.S. for a month in April while it figured out how to respond. A subsequent trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S. saw tariffs cut from 27.5 percent to 10 percent, but the pause contributed to a near $1 billion drop in revenues compared with 2024.

The attack also follows reports JLR has delayed the launch of new electric Range Rover and Land Rover models, as well as the production version of the controversial Type 00 concept, which was supposed to relaunch the Jaguar brand.

Deliveries of the electric-powered, full-size Range Rover, originally scheduled for late 2025, have been pushed back to the first quarter of next year. The electric-powered Range Rover Velar, originally scheduled to begin production in April 2026, has also reportedly been delayed, and an electric-powered Defender may now not appear until the first quarter of 2027. The launch of the production Jaguar Type 00 is said to have slipped several months until August 2026, and the second car in the all-new, radically redesigned, electric-powered Jaguar lineup may now not appear until early 2027.