Staff at Jaguar Land Rover’s Merseyside plant have been told to stay home due to a cyber attack.
Production at the car manufacturer’s Halewood operations base was shut down early on Monday morning after its IT systems were taken offline last weekend.
The incident has also affected JLR’s West Midlands factory at Solihull and engine manufacturing centre in Wolverhampton since the company shut down its systems.
Owners Tata Motors confirmed to workers that it took ‘immediate action’ to limit the disruption but is currently still working to resolve the issue in a controlled manner.
Workers now have been informed that the shutdown is expect to remain home until at least next Tuesday (September 9) while the full impact of the hack is reversed.
A group of English-speaking hackers have since claimed credit for the attack in screenshots posted on a Telegram channel using the name of multiple groups.
British-based brands M&S, the Co-op and Harrods have all been impacted by hackings over recent weeks which had a knock-on impact to online sales.
Scattered Spider, one of three hackers named in the channel, were blamed for the cyber attacks which caused an estimated £300 million damage to M&S.
A JLR spokesperson said it was “aware of the claims and continues to investigate”.