AM100 vendor group JCT600 has been pressured to close down important IT techniques after the enterprise was focused by cyber criminals.
The enterprise advised AM that on Wednesday 14 February, its IT safety techniques recognized a possible safety breach and, as a precautionary measure, instantly took a few of its techniques offline to allow it to undertake a full IT safety overview, in an effort to guard knowledge.
It mentioned that the precautionary step had brought on some delays though this was restricted to administration and didn’t have an effect on the supply of vehicles or stopping clients utilizing the web site as standard to browse for autos.
“Our IT crew continues to evaluate the breach, however at the moment there isn’t any proof that any buyer knowledge was accessed,” mentioned JCT600 in a press release, “and now we have full management of the IT techniques.
“We are going to put all our servers again on-line as quickly as our cyber specialists have accomplished their overview and we’re 100% happy {that a} risk now not exists. Within the meantime, we’re persevering with to take bookings and ship autos, though there’s a little inconvenience and minor delays, however our precedence is to proceed with warning with all potential cyber threats.”
It added that it doesn’t plan to make any additional remark till it is able to present an replace.
JCT600 is the most recent automotive retail group to fall foul of a cyber assault.
In December 2022, AM100 vendor group Arnold Clark was attacked, forcing the automotive retail large to axe web entry to guard buyer knowledge.
Arnold Clark revealed that its exterior cyber safety consultants had notified the enterprise of “suspicious site visitors on our community” late on December 23. As soon as confirmed by its personal cyber crew the choice was made to take down its community voluntarily as a measure to guard our clients’ knowledge, techniques and third-party companions.
As a result of disruption to its IT techniques, Arnold Clark was unable to finish handovers of autos offered to clients earlier than Christmas.
In October 2022, AM reported that Pendragon was understood to have acquired a $60 million (£53m) ransom demand. That assault got here simply two months after Holdcroft Motor Group noticed a few of its core techniques “broken past restore” by a cyber assault.
