Jaguar Land Rover cyber incident halts production and registrations

Jaguar Land Rover said a major cyber incident forced it to take global IT systems offline over the weekend, halting production and preventing dealers from registering new vehicles during one of the busiest sales periods of the year. The disruption was detected on Sunday and prompted the British carmaker to shut down systems as a precaution, with staff at its Halewood plant in Merseyside and other sites told not to report for shifts on Monday, company statements and local reports said.

In a statement, Jaguar Land Rover said it had "been impacted by a cyber incident" and that it had "proactively shut down our systems" to mitigate the damage. The company added it was "working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled manner" and that "at this stage there is no evidence any customer data has been stolen but our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted."

Tata Motors, JLR's parent, notified the Indian stock exchange, describing the event as an IT security incidence. A spokesman for the manufacturer said some specialist staff were being kept on to support recovery while production associates were told to remain at home and hours were banked under...