Jaguar Land Rover Hack Cost $260 Million

Carmaker Resumes Full Production Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • November 17, 2025

The September cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover resulted in a company loss of roughly $260 million, the British carmaker reported Friday while also announcing a resumption of normal production.

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The automaker said its racked up 196 million pounds worth of expenses after a breach detected on Sept. 1 led to the company shutting down assembly lines in the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Brazil and India.

A cybercrime group consisting principally of Western adolescent hackers with the moniker "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters" took responsibility for the hack. Jaguar Land Rover, a division of Indian multinational Tata Motors, acknowledged mid-September that hackers stole data (see: Jaguar Land Rover Hackers Stole Data).

The hack, and its spillover impact, affected the U.K. economy, with the Bank of England reporting that the British ...