Plants on four continents stopped, most of them never attacked. Assessed at £1.9 billion — the UK’s costliest cyber incident.
Worse than any September through oil shocks, three-day weeks and a pandemic. Output statistics may be a better instrument than any breach register.
A stopped production system does not resume — it restarts from a different state. Nobody publishes the recovery curve.
Breach registers count individuals. Cost surveys estimate dollars. Nothing counts jobs.
No records exposed, no notification owed, nothing in any register. What happened is that people stopped being paid.
No affected-individual count anchors this file. A manufacturer could not manufacture for five weeks, and the metrics this industry collects barely register it.