Jaguar Land Rover hit by cyber attack

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said that its retail and production activities have been “severely disrupted” by a cyber attack.

The attack was reported yesterday (2 September 2025), with JLR saying it took immediate action to mitigate the impact of the incident and was working quickly to restart operations.

There is no evidence any customer data has been stolen, the manufacturer added.

Its full statement said: “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems.

“We are now working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled manner. At this stage there is no evidence any customer data has been stolen but our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted.”

Other incidents

JLR is not the only major brand to be targeted this year, with there having been breaches at UK retailers Marks and Spencer (M&S) and Co-op in April 2025.

According to a report released by the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), the total financial impact of these attacks for M&S and Co-op is between £270m to £440m, due to the total disruption to their online services as well as in-store sales.

Tom Draper, managing director at Coalition UK, said that while the overall volume of cyber and ransomware attacks has remained “relatively steady”, “the recent focus on large, household-names has brought the issue into the national spotlight again”.

“When the public sees empty shelves or disrupted services, the effects of what is usually a behind-the-scenes digital event become much more tangible,” he continued.

“However, this visibility masks a deeper concern. Coalition Research team found that of the 233 UK companies publicly listed by ransomware groups in 2025, 80% had fewer than 200 employees.

“In fact, more businesses with fewer than 10 employees have been impacted than those with over 10,000. While major retailers, food, and consumer companies like JLR and M&S, have the resources – and often the cyber insurance – to weather such incidents, most SMEs lack both the financial resilience and the protection to recover quickly.

“Cyber risk is no longer just an IT issue, it’s a fundamental business continuity threat that smaller and medium size firms must urgently prioritise.”