Jaguar Land Rover: Who owns the firm - as workers ‘told to stay at home’ for days after major cyber attack

The staff have reportedly been told to work from home until at least next Tuesday. The luxury carmaker has paused production at its factories in Halewood on Merseyside and Solihull in the West Midlands, as well as at its engine manufacturing site in Wolverhampton.

Production workers are said to have been told not to return to work until September 9, with the situation under review. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) revealed on Tuesday that production and sales have been “severely disrupted” following a hack.

The UK car manufacturer, owned by India’s Tata Motors, shut down systems on Sunday after becoming aware of issues affecting its global operations. It is the latest setback for JLR as it deals with the impact of US tariffs on the sector and weak consumer confidence.

The attack also comes at a crucial time for car firms, with September the month when new registration plates are released, traditionally boosting demand for new motors. It is understood the hack is also affecting repairs to JLR’s vehicles, as dealerships and garages are unable to order new parts, while some customer handovers are also said to be impacted.

On Wednesday, a group of young hackers who targeted Marks and Spencer and other British brands reportedly claimed they were also behind the JLR attack. The BBC reported that the gang bragged about the hack on instant messaging platform Telegram and shared screenshots purporting to be from the car manufacturer’s internal IT system.

It comes after a spate of cyber attacks across the UK retail sector earlier this year, with M&S, the Co-op and Harrods among those worst affected. The gang made the claims on a Telegram channel which is called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, a combination of three English language speaking, hacking groups known as Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and ShinyHunters.

JLR said earlier this week it was “working at pace” to restart its operations across retail and production sites. The company stressed there was “no evidence” that any customer data has been stolen in the attack.

Jaguar Land Rover has been a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Tata Motors, in which Tata Sons is the largest shareholder, since 2008. Tata Motors, which is owned by Tata Group, is an Indian automotive manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai that began in 1868 as a trading company.

Tata Group made a name for themselves by opening India’s first hotel with electricity in 1907, building Western India’s first hydropower plant, and founding the Indian Institute of Science in 1911. Land Rover, along with Jaguar Cars, was bought by Tata Motors from Ford in 2008.

The two British brands were joined under Tata Motors to become Jaguar Land Rover Limited in 2013. Tata Motors also owns multiple global automotive operations in both the commercial and passenger vehicle segments, while the parent Tata Group does business in everything from hospitals to steel to telecommunications.