The Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that a cyber attack forced the company to close some systems as part of the mitigation attempt.
Although the incident has a significant impact on the production and retail operation of the automakers, the short statement published on the official website stated that customer data is most likely.
“JLR has been affected by a cyber phenomenon. We took immediate action to reduce its impact by closing our system,” Reads the statement,
“There is no evidence at this level that any customer data has been stolen, but our retail and production activities are severely interrupted,” the company says.
JLR also said that it is “now working at a pace to resume our global applications in a controlled manner.”
After being acquired by Ford in 2008, Jaguar Land Rover works as a single company, JLR under Tata Motors India.
With Anuel revenue of over 38 billion dollars (£ 29 billion), the company produces more than 400,000 vehicles every year and employs 39,000 people.
The first report about a serious disruption in JLR operation came from dealers in Britain Unable to register new cars Or supply parts on service points.
In response to the media queries, JLR stated that there was an attack in the weekend, which forced it to close several systems, including those who were used in which it was used Solyhul production plant,
This is the place where popular models like Land Rover Discovery, Range Rover and Range Rover Sport have been made.
The company has not provided a timeline to return to normal operations and has not given any details about the attack with which it is working.
In the weekend attacks are common because danger actors know that this is the time when companies are able to respond efficiently and prevent violations before too long.
At the time of writing it, no ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack in JLR.
Bleepingcomputer has approached the vehicle manufacturer to ask more information about the type of event and potential impact on customers, and we will update this post with their statement, once it will reach us.
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