Russian hackers were behind $2.5B hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report
Last year, hackers attacked car giant Jaguar Land Rover (JPL), one of the U.K.’s biggest employers.
Last year, hackers attacked car giant Jaguar Land Rover (JPL), one of the U.K.’s biggest employers.
The short version
- The hack halted production for months and made a dent in the country’s economy.
- The damage was so severe that the U.K. government decided to bail out the company with a £1.5 billion (around $2 billion) payment, and estimates say the hack cost the British economy $2.5 billion.
- For months, there was only speculation about who did it.
- Microsoft was tracking the Russian hacking group and alerted JLR to the information about the hacker’s identities, the Times reports.
What happened
However, sources also said that the FBI, Britain’s National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre, Google’s Mandiant unit, and Palo Alto Networks all worked on the investigation. In what is a rare, but not an unprecedented occurrence in the world of cybersecurity, it turned out that the Russian hacking group was not the only one that breached some JPL networks.
Why it matters
A Jordanian hacker who went by Rey had also broken in, according to the Times.
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