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 fast motion to reduce the impact of the hack and is working shortly 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 automotive gross sales, as the most recent batch of latest registration plates grew to become out there on Monday 1 September.
It is historically a well-liked time for shoppers 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 techniques in an effort to minimise the injury being carried out.
Staff on the firm’s Halewood plant in Merseyside had been instructed by e mail early on Monday morning to not come into work, with others despatched house – as first reported by the Liverpool Echo.
It’s not but identified who’s chargeable for the assault, however it comes within the wake of crippling assaults on distinguished 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 fast motion to mitigate its affect by proactively shutting down our techniques.
“We at the moment are working at tempo to restart our world functions 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 stoop in earnings attributed to rising in prices brought on by US tariffs.
