The cyber attack which targeted Jaguar Land Rover cost the UK economy almost £2 billion, according to an independent report.

The report published by independent non-profit the Cyber Monitoring Centre said more than 5,000 organisations were affected and that further losses could accrue if JLR – owned by India’s Tata Motors – was unable to return to pre-hack levels quickly.

Last month the Government agreed to support JLR’s suppliers with a £1.5bn loan after the company had to shut down its UK operations due to the incident, which occurred at the end of August.