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Jaguar Land Rover hack now ‘costliest in UK history’

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The Cyber Monitoring Centre has categorised the recent malicious cyber incident affecting Jaguar Land Rover as “the most economically damaging cyber event to hit the UK”.

The attack, which took place in August, impacted Jaguar Land Rover’s internal IT environment leading to a shutdown and halt in global manufacturing operations.

The CMC has now categorised the attack as

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