The August cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), a subsidiary of Tata Motors, has been identified as the most economically damaging cyber incident in British history, costing the UK economy an estimated £1.9 billion ($2.55 billion) and affecting over 5,000 organisations, according to a new report by the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC). Advertisement

The CMC — an independent, non-profit body comprising cybersecurity experts, including former officials from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — said the financial toll could rise further if the automaker’s production takes longer than expected to fully recover. The report, released on Wednesday, underscored that “the vast majority of the financial impact stemmed from lost manufacturing output at JLR and its suppliers.”

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