MPs press outsourcer TCS over Jaguar cyber assault

The UK authorities has reached out to Indian IT outsourcer Tata Consultancy Providers (TCS) looking for solutions from CEO Krithi Krithivasan over its alleged involvement within the ongoing cyber assault at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which has introduced manufacturing on the agency to a standstill.

TCS was briefly linked to the Scattered Spider assault on Marks and Spencer (M&S) earlier this 12 months and did conduct its personal investigation into whether or not or not its methods had been the preliminary supply of the incident.

Nonetheless, in June 2025, the IT big advised shareholders that it had discovered no TCS methods or customers had been compromised, and no different prospects impacted. A consultant for the corporate stated the “purview of the investigation doesn’t embody TCS”.

Nonetheless, unconfirmed public hypothesis has continued to hyperlink TCS to different intrusions and assaults carried out by Scattered Spider and related hacking teams, together with incidents at Qantas – a TCS buyer – and different airways.

Within the letter, Liam Byrne MP, in his capability as chair of the cross-bench Enterprise and Commerce Committee, stated he was looking for out extra details about each the JLR cyber assault and the incidents at M&S and Co-op Group. JLR is coincidentally backed by the broader Tata organisation.

Byrne stated the Committee was trying to set up extra particulars on TCS’ function as a service supplier to all three affected corporations – together with the scope of companies offered thus far; whether or not TCS is conducting or will conduct an inner investigation into the JLR incident; and whether or not it has carried out or concluded an investigation into the M&S and Co-op incidents and what it discovered.

Byrne additionally requested for particulars of what number of UK organisations work with TCS, with a selected emphasis on these working within the 13 sectors that Westminster at the moment defines as essential nationwide infrastructure (CNI), and the whole worth of companies contracts it holds within the UK.

On Monday 29 September, JLR stated it was “taking additional steps” in a “managed, phased restart” of its manufacturing operations, after receiving a £1.5bn mortgage assure from the federal government.

“We’re informing colleagues, retailers and suppliers that some sections of our manufacturing operations will resume within the coming days,” the agency stated. “We proceed to work across the clock alongside cyber safety specialists, the UK authorities’s NCSC [National Cyber Security Centre] and regulation enforcement to make sure our restart is completed in a protected and safe method.”

The disaster has led to manufacturing shutdowns throughout JLR – together with at its crops in Brazil, India and Slovakia – and triggered a collection of cascading results which are being keenly felt throughout the UK automotive business.

As Britain’s largest extant carmaker, JLR is a serious drive within the wider provide chain, and plenty of smaller firms have needed to make cuts of their very own in response. In keeping with the Enterprise and Commerce Committee, at the very least one JLR provider had been pressured to promote equipment and different property. Others have been reducing again on workers hours, leaving hundreds of staff out of pocket.

TCS had not responded to a request for remark from Pc Weekly on the time of publication.