Jeremy Clarkson‘s famous Farmer’s Dog pub was targeted by hackers, the Amazon Prime TV star has revealed.
Cyber-criminals reportedly stole £27,000 from the Cotswolds boozer during a recent hacking raid.
Similar attacks have also recently been launched against Jaguar Land Rover, as well as M&S and the Co-op, according to reports.
In his Sun column the Clarkson’s Farm star writes: ‘But no one thought to mention that my pub, the Farmer’s Dog, has been hit too.
‘It was, though. Someone broke into our accounting system and helped themselves to £27,000.’
Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover was hit by a ‘cyber incident’ that crippled its manufacturing plants and delivery systems.
It says it took ‘immediate action’ when it became aware of the incident, shutting down systems on Monday – just as it would have been registering new 75 plate cars.
Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswold pub was targeted by hackers, the Amazon Prime TV star has revealed
Cyber-criminals reportedly stole £27,000 from the Farmer’s Dog during a recent hacking raid
Similar attacks have also recently been launched against Jaguar Land Rover, as well as M&S and the Co-op, according to reports. (Pictured: Jaguar Land Rover’s Halewood production plant near Liverpool)
The company – which recently wound down building new Jags ahead of a switch to electric vehicles – sent staff home from the Halewood plant near Liverpool on Monday.
The plant, which produces models such as the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport, remained closed on Tuesday, according to local media.
Alongside manufacturing, systems including the one used to register new cars were reported to have been crippled by the shutdown.
JLR said on Tuesday that it did not believe customer data has been stolen – but admitted its day-to-day activities were disrupted.
The firm said in a statement: ‘JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems.
‘We are now working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled manner.
‘At this stage there is no evidence any customer data has been stolen but our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted.’
Earlier this week Jaguar Land Rover was hit by a ‘cyber incident’ that crippled its manufacturing plants and delivery systems (pictured: workers on the assembly line)
The Liverpool Echo reported that the attack was discovered at 4.30am on Monday. The shutdown has continued into today and is likely to continue into tomorrow, the outlet said.
In an update sent to staff, the firm is reported to have said: ‘The leadership team has agreed that production associates will be stood down and will have hours banked in line with the corridor agreement.’
Industry magazine Autocar reported that the system used by Jaguar to register new cars with the government had been taken offline as a result of the shutdown.
The attack could not have come at a worse time for the firm on the first day of brand new 75 plate cars.
Quoting a dealer, the magazine said there had been no estimate given for when systems would come back online.
JLR’s parent company Tata posted a notice to the Indian stock exchange which refers to the issue as an ‘IT security’ incident. It did not give further details.
‘We are working at pace to resolve global IT issues impacting our business. We will provide an update as appropriate in due course,’ the statement, from a company secretary, said.
The incident at Jaguar comes after a number of other British firms were targeted by hackers, causing havoc.
Marks and Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods were targeted by hackers earlier this year.
The attacks shut down M&S’s website and affected day-to-day Co-op stores, while Harrods said its systems had been accessed.
