{"id":143035,"date":"2025-09-17T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143035\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:22:09","slug":"liam-byrne-mp-fears-jlr-hack-could-see-thousands-laid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143035\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Byrne MP fears JLR hack could see thousands laid off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Though some have warned disruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czewlj57e24o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could last until November<\/a>, JLR described this as &#8220;speculation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Production lines were paused on 1 September, when the hack came to light. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shutdown is believed to be costing the firm, which has factories in Solihull, Castle Bromwich and Halewood, an engine facility in Wolverhampton, and plants overseas, at least \u00a350m a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has not revealed how much damage was caused, but a criminal investigation has begun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">JLR said it had delayed restarting production as &#8220;forensic investigation&#8221; of the cyber incident continued and it considered a &#8220;controlled restart&#8221; of global operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though some have warned disruption could last until November, JLR described this as &#8220;speculation&#8221;. Production lines were paused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-143035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}