Automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that it was forced to take a number of systems offline due to a cyberattack. The incident appears to have affected the automaker’s manufacturing and retail operations.
“JLR was affected by a cyber incident. We took immediate measures to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems,” the company said in an official statement. “At present, there is no evidence of any customer data being stolen; however, our retail and manufacturing operations have been severely disrupted.”
JLR also says that work is underway on a controlled restart of all global applications. The company is not giving a specific timeframe for a return to normal operations and is not disclosing any details about the attack it has faced.
The first reports of disruptions at JLR came from dealers in the UK, who complained that they could no longer register new vehicles or supply parts to service centers.
According to the Liverpool Echo, the attack occurred over the past weekend, and due to the incident JLR had to shut down a number of systems, including those used at the company’s manufacturing facility in Solihull (the Land Rover Discovery, Range Rover, and Range Rover Sport models are assembled here).
Also, the media report that on Monday an email was sent to workers at the company’s plant in Halewood asking them not to come to work, and other employees were also sent home.
At present, no hacker group has claimed responsibility for the attack on Jaguar Land Rover.