Jaguar Land Rover says a cyber-attack has “severely disrupted” automobile manufacturing in addition to its retail operation.
The agency, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, says it took quick motion to minimize the impact of the hack and is working rapidly to restart operations.
There was no proof any buyer information had been stolen, it mentioned.
The assault started on Sunday and comes at a big time for UK automobile gross sales, as the newest batch of latest registration plates turned obtainable on Monday 1 September.
It is historically a well-liked time for customers to take supply of a brand new automobile.
The BBC understands that the assault was detected whereas in progress, and the corporate shut down its IT programs in an effort to minimise the injury being completed.
Staff on the firm’s Halewood plant in Merseyside have been informed by e mail early on Monday morning to not come into work, with others despatched house.
It’s not but identified who’s liable for the assault, but it surely comes within the wake of crippling assaults on outstanding UK retail companies together with the Co-op and Marks and Spencer.
In each instances the hackers sought to extort cash.
In an announcement the agency wrote: “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took quick motion to mitigate its affect by proactively shutting down our programs.
“We are actually working at tempo to restart our international purposes in a managed method.
“At this stage there is no such thing as a proof any buyer information has been stolen however our retail and manufacturing actions have been severely disrupted”
The halt in manufacturing is a recent blow to the agency which lately revealed a droop in earnings attributed to rising in prices attributable to US tariffs.
