Seeing JLR's cyber mess drag on like this, with factories dark for weeks and suppliers teetering on bankruptcy, it's a gut punch for the real folk in the supply chain, those small outfits laying off half their staff just to survive. I've dealt with enough breaches to know, if your DR plan lets an attack cripple live ops, backups, and recovery, it's not fit for purpose, plain and simple. A giant like JLR should have air-gapped, tested failover, not this scramble that's costing £5m a day and risking 100,000 jobs. Frustrating how basics get overlooked when it matters most.

1/3 Well, it's the 24th, and JLR's factories are still in limbo after that cyber hit. They've pushed the restart to October 1 now, with suppliers hanging by a thread and the government mulling over buying up parts to save jobs. Bloody frustrating, but at least it's sparking chats on better resilience. 👀

2/3 Reports say data got nicked too, and with no cyber insurance sorted in time, JLR's footing the whole bill, could be hundreds of millions by the end. Ouch. I've seen enough breaches to know skipping that policy is like driving without a seatbelt, thrilling until it isn't. What's your backup for the backups?

1/3 Heathrow, Brussels, Berlin… all doing manual check-in because a shared system got popped. One supplier, many airports, one giant queue. Single point of failure strikes again. What’s your plan B when the tablets say no? 🧐

2/3 Today’s lesson in resilience: when the fancy kiosks die, paper tags and people keep flying. Tech is brilliant, until it isn’t. Do your vendors practice failover with you, or just send PDFs? 👀

1/3 Diving deeper into the Scattered Spider saga, both Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers now face UK charges specifically tied to the 2024 cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL), which disrupted services and racked up £39 million in recovery costs alone. This follows their arrests earlier this week as part of the broader U.S.-UK crackdown on the group's intrusions. Notably, while Jubair faces separate U.S. federal charges for over 120 hacks, Owen does not appear to have any U.S. indictments yet, at least as it stands.

2/3 The TfL breach, which happened in September 2024, involved social engineering tactics to infiltrate the network, leading to data theft and operational chaos across London's transit system. Flowers was first nabbed for it last year but released on bail; now both teens are charged under the Computer Misuse Act for conspiracy and unauthorized access. It's one piece of their alleged 120 hacks, but a stark example of real-world fallout

1/4 Just finished reading the DOJ announcement on Thalha Jubair, a 19 year old UK national charged in connection with multiple cyber attacks targeting U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure. As part of the Scattered Spider group, he and others conducted over 120 intrusions, extorted millions, and even targeted court systems 😵.

3/4 Facing up to 95 years in prison at only 19 years old is a staggering prospect, essentially a real life sentence. It's a stark reminder of how quickly wrong paths can lead to irreversible forever lasting consequences.