The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will cost a whopping £1.9bn to the UK economy – the most economically damaging attack in UK history, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre.
The car giant was forced to halt car production for five weeks, with an estimated 5,000 other businesses in the supply chain all affected.
Ciaran Martin, chair of the CMC’s technical committee said: “With a cost of nearly £2bn, this incident looks to have been by some distance, the single most financially damaging cyber event ever to hit the UK.
“That should make us all pause and think. Every organisation needs to identify the networks that matter to them, and how to protect them better, and then plan for how they’d cope if the network gets disrupted.”
