MPs press outsourcer TCS over Jaguar cyber attack

The Government of Great Britain has He held out his hand The Tata Consultance Services (TCS) Indian IT -Autsourcing is looking for answers from CEO Crititicasan from his alleged participation in the ongoing cyberization in Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which brought production to the company.

TCS was briefly connected with a scattered attack of spiders on Marx and Spencer (M&S) at the beginning of this year and conducted their own investigation of whether its systems were the original source of the incident or notField

However, in June 2025The IT giant told the shareholders that he did not find that the TCS systems or users were not compromised, and no other customers were injured. The company representative said that “the scope of the investigation does not include TCS.”

Nevertheless, Unconfirmed public speculations continued to associate TCS with other invasions and attacks carried out by scattered spiders and tied hacked groups, including Incidents in Qantas – Client TCS – and other airlines.

In a letter, Liam Burn, deputy, as chairman of Cross-Bench Business CommitteeHe said that he tried to find out more information about the cyber attack by JLR and incidents in M&S and Co-Op Group. JLR, by coincidence, is supported by a wider Tata organization.

Burn said that the committee sought to establish more detailed information on the role of TCS as a provider of services for all three touched firms, including the volume of services provided to date; Whether the TCS conducts an internal investigation of the JLR incident; And whether he conducted either the investigation of the M&S incidents and the cooperative and what he found.

Burn also asked the details about how many British organizations work with TCS, with a special emphasis on those who work in 13 sectors that Westminster currently defines as critical national infrastructure (CNI), and the total cost of services that he has in the UK.

On Monday, September 29, JLR said that “taking further steps” in the “controlled, phased restart” of its production operations, After receiving a loan warranty of 1.5 billion pounds From the government.

“We inform our colleagues, retail sellers and suppliers that some sections of our production operations will resume in the coming days,” the company said. “We continue to work around the clock with specialists in cybersecurity, NCSC Government of Great Britain [National Cyber Security Centre] and law enforcement agencies to ensure that our restart is carried out in a safe and safe way. ”

The crisis led to a production stop in JLR, including at its factories in Brazil, India and Slovakia, and caused a series of cascading effects, which are widely felt in the automobile industry of Great Britain.

Being the largest existing car manufacturer of Great Britain, JLR is the main force in a wider supply chain, and in response, many small companies had to make their own reductions. According to the business committee and trade, at least one JLR supplier was forced to sell cars and other assetsThe field others reduced the hours of staff, leaving thousands of employees from their pockets.

TCS did not respond to a request for comments from a computer weekly during publication.

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