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by alistairSH 236 days ago
Did they not have a disaster recovery plan in place? It's not amazing that they got hit with a breach. It's amazing that they couldn't just "nuke from orbit" and start with a day-old snapshot (yeah, that's massively oversimplified, but still, it shouldn't take months and $billions$ to recover either).

And that 40k ghost car doesn't sound realistic. LR only makes ~400k vehicles/year. That 10% of their annual output got "lost" beggars belief.
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onionisafruit 236 days ago
to paraphrase mike tyson, everybody has a disaster recovery plan until they get punched in the face
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intrasight 236 days ago
They did have a good plan - which was to have the government bail them out. If you have that plan, there is no need to have any other plan.
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noir_lord 235 days ago
From their point of view it was a good plan - given JLR is owned by Tata who had the resources to bail them out and didn't they (Tata) likely see it as a good deal.

Late stage capitalism in action as usual - privatise the profits, socialise the costs.

Technically what the government did was underwrite the loan but again - why is the government underwriting the loan when Tata has the resources to do that (13bn net income at last FY).

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