Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover is a British automaker that combines two brands - Land Rover premium all-wheel drive SUVs and sports sedans, sports cars and Jaguar SUVs.

In 2018, 592,708 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles were sold in 128 countries. The staff of dealerships, suppliers and local contractors of the company is about 260,000 people. Jaguar Land Rover's main manufacturing facilities, including the two largest design and engineering manufacturing sites, three car manufacturing plants and the Engine Assembly Center, are located in. Great Britain Additional capacity is located in,, China, and Brazil. India Austria Slovakia

From 2020, the company's customers will be able to install electric motors on all new Jaguar Land Rover models. The company plans to introduce versions of current cars with electric, hybrid powerplants and in the soft hybrid version, as well as continue to produce cars with advanced gasoline and diesel engines.

History

2025: Hundreds of gigabytes of customer and employee data leaked

In mid-March 2025, it became known that the information infrastructure of the automaker Jaguar Land Rover was subjected to a hacker attack. The attackers managed to steal hundreds of gigabytes of confidential information, including internal company documents, software source codes, as well as personal data of employees and partners.

The Hellcat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the invasion. During the hack, the attackers used the credentials of one of the LG Electronics employees who had access to Jaguar Land Rover's Jira server. The Jira platform is a workflow management tool for software development teams: the system is necessary for efficient planning, process optimization, progress tracking, coherent work and analytics. In total, cybercriminals stole 350GB of Jaguar Land Rover information from servers.

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Hackers used LG Electronics to steal credentials. malware Members of the Hellcat group use various tools. This is, in particular, the malware Lumma, which imperceptibly infects victims' devices - often through phishing emails, downloads of any files or hacked websites. Once injected, the malware ON retrieves sensitive data, including login credentials for enterprise systems. This information can then be used to organize more complex attacks, including for the purpose of extortion.

The investigation showed that in the course of the Jaguar Land Rover hack, cybercriminals used the old but still valid credentials of an LG Electronics employee who had access to the automaker's Jira server. As of mid-March 2025, Jaguar Land Rover assesses damage from intrusion.^[1]

2024

Announcement of the cessation of production of cars with ICE

In November 2024, Jaguar Land Rover announced the end of automaking. The company decided to abandon cars with ICE and completely switch to electric vehicles.

According to Bloomberg, Jaguar Land Rover has stopped producing XE, XF and F-Type sports cars in Britain. The assembly of E-Pace and I-Pace SUVs in Austria will be discontinued from December 2024. New items from the British manufacturer will now appear only in 2026 and these will be exclusively electric vehicles.

Sale of the Russian division to its executives

On November 2, 2024, it became known that Russian top managers of Jaguar Land Rover acquired the assets of the Russian representative office of the British automaker. The deal was completed on October 31, 2024, and now Jaguar Land Rover LLC is fully owned by Russian top managers. This information is confirmed by the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Read more here

Recall of millions of cars with defective airbags

On July 31, 2024, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration USA (NHTSA) announced that more than 50 million cars of different brands can be equipped with defective airbags, which in the event of a traffic accident can cause serious harm to the health of the driver and passengers or even provoke their death. Defective products were marketed by ARC Automotive and Delphi Automotive Systems. More here

1953

Writer Ernest Hemingway and his wife Mary in Land Rover during a safari. Kenya, February 1953.