Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced it will partially restart manufacturing in the coming days, nearly a month after production was halted by a major cyberattack.
The luxury carmaker suspended operations on 31 August, disrupting assembly lines at its plants in Solihull and Halewood, and forcing thousands of staff and suppliers into temporary standstill. The attack also froze payments across the supply chain, affecting hundreds of small firms reliant on JLR contracts.
The news follows a government move to back a £1.5 bn loan guarantee for the automaker, amid warnings from MPs that some suppliers had only «a week of cashflow left» without support.
JLR employs 33K people directly in the UK and supports about 200K jobs in its supply chain. The company said its IT systems had now been partially restored, allowing supplier payments to resume, but warned «there is much more to do» before full operations are back online.
The attack is the latest in a wave of cyber incidents hitting major UK businesses, with Harrods, the Co-op, and Marks & Spencer also targeted in the past year.
Kursiv Uzbekistan also reports Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has extended the shutdown of its UK factories until at least 1 October after a major cyber attack paralysed its operations on 31 August.
