State sponsorship confirmed by former minister for £2.1bn JLR cyberattack, with Russia suspected, as MPs demand greater openness on cyber threats
Al Carns, who told a Chatham House audience that the Jaguar Land Rover cyber-attack was state-sponsored, with his comments only now emerging publicly despite the hack shutting production lines for five weeks.The costliest cyber-attack in British history, the JLR hack put roughly 200,000 jobs at risk and has been tied by a June investigation to a Russian hacking group.
A former armed forces minister has become the first government figure to publicly attribute the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack to a hostile foreign power, with Russia suspected, sparking calls from MPs for more transparency about the scale of threats facing British industry. The comments, made at the Chatham House think tank in July, have only recently emerged, and the minister acknowledges his view did not rest on an official Ministry of Defence assessment.
Jaguar Land Rover halted production for five weeks, putting 200,000 jobs at risk and causing losses estimated at £2.1bn.
The former minister argued an attack of that scale couldn't happen 'without the host state knowing about it'.
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