Jaguar Land Rover has said it will restart parts of its manufacturing operations “in the coming days” in the latest stage of its complex effort to recover from a crippling cyber-attack.
The maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars has been scrambling to get its systems up and running after the hack on the last day of August forced it to shut down factories and retail operations around the world.
Britain’s biggest automotive employer said it was carrying out a “controlled, phased restart of our operations”, in a statement on Monday.
The UK government announced a £1.5bn loan guarantee for JLR on Saturday “to support its supply chain”. JLR has also separately agreed another £2bn debt deal with Britain’s Standard Chartered Bank, America’s Citigroup and Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. JLR declined to comment on the debt agreement, which was first reported by the…
