JLR Cyberattack: UK's costliest ($2.5bn) breach further exposes production fragility Independent analysts say the attack on Jaguar Land Rover has caused unprecedented damage to Britain's automotive sector, with recovery not expected until early 2026 as supply chain impacts deepen across 5,000 tier suppliers and companies. Ilkhan Ozsevim
Amazon's AWS outage exposes automotive production's digital vulnerability Amazon's 15-hour AWS outage affected billions in transactions globally. With major OEMs running production systems on the same infrastructure, the incident raises urgent questions about automotive manufacturing's digital resilience. Ilkhan Ozsevim
The human cost of JLR's shutdown Unite union calls on the British government to launch a furlough scheme mirroring a Scottish plan, as workers are laid off in droves to protect JLR production and supply chain jobs threatened by the cyberattack. Ilkhan Ozsevim
JLR shuts IT systems, halts UK plant production after cyberattack Production at Solihull and Halewood have been suspended. JLR said it had taken “immediate action to mitigate” the impact and that it continues to investigate the source and scope of the incident. Anushka Dixit
