Jeremy Clarkson's pub The Farmer's Dog 'subjected to £27k cyber attack'

Jeremy Clarkson's pub has fallen foul of hackers who stole £27k from the business. The Farmer's Dog was targeted by cyber-criminals who used elite tactics to access the accounts of the Cotswolds based venue in a recent hacking raid. They made off with the eye-watering sum in the attack, similar to those huge businesses Jaguar Land Rover, M&S and the Co-op have recently been victims of.

Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy addressed the incident in his column for The Sun as he discussed the sophisticated criminal raids. He wrote, "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 became the latest firm to be hit by a "cyber incident" which saw its manufacturing plants and delivery systems targeted.

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The business claimed they took "immediate action" after realising what was happening and shut down their systems on Monday, when it was due to register new 75 plate cars.

Staff at the Halewood plant near Liverpool were sent home on Monday and, according to reports, remained closed on Tuesday as they dealt with the attack. The plant produces car models, including the Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport.

Jaguar Land Rover have claimed no customer data was stolen in the attack. 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."

The Liverpool Echo reported that the attack was discovered at 4.30am on Monday. An update shared with staff at JLR reportedly said, "The leadership team has agreed that production associates will be stood down and will have hours banked in line with the corridor agreement."

Meanwhile, Autocar reported that Jaguar's new car registration system had been taken offline during the attack. No time frame had been given for when their systems would be back up and running.

JLR's parent company, Tata, also shared a notice on the Indian stock exchange regarding an "IT security" incident, with no further details given. It said: "We are working at pace to resolve global IT issues impacting our business. We will provide an update as appropriate in due course."

Marks and Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods were already targeted by hackers earlier this year. M&S shut down online trading for several days over the incident, while the co-op faced in-store issues as they rushed to combat the attack, and Harrods admitted their systems had been breached.

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