Jaguar Land Rover Production to Restart Oct. 1 Following Cyberattack
Following the Aug. 31 cyberattack that forced the suspension of manufacturing operations, JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) now says it has extended the current pause until Sept. 24. UPDATE: The pause has been extended to Oct. 1.
“We have taken this decision as our forensic investigation of the cyber incident continues, and as we consider the different stages of the controlled restart of our global operations, which will take time,” the automaker said in a statement on its website.
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To be clear, Jaguar Land Rover dealers have not been affected and remain open.
Should manufacturing operations indeed resume on Sept. 24, there will be a backlog of at least 25,000 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles—mostly the latter since the only new Jaguar model left is the F-Pace—since JLR has a production capacity of more than 1,000 units a day.
Some Data May Be Compromised
Through the ongoing investigation, the company believes that some data has been affected and has taken steps to inform the relevant regulators.
“Our forensic investigations continue at pace and we will contact anyone as appropriate if we find that their data has been impacted,” according to another statement posted on JLR Canada’s website. “We are very sorry for the continued disruption this incident is causing and we will continue to update as the investigation progresses.”
40,000 Lost Vehicles? Just Fake News
A few days ago, Automotive News Europe claimed that JLR had lost track of approximately 40,000 vehicles built before the cyberattack. However, this report is completely false, the automaker insists.
"JLR has full visibility and control of vehicles through tracking processes from the factory to market,” a spokesperson has told Motor1.
That being said, the scale of the cyberattack appears to go well beyond the manufacturer itself, also affecting its supply chain and service departments, more specifically its parts suppliers.
In Canada, Jaguar sales were unsurprisingly down 25 percent through the first half of the year, according to figures from the Automotive News Data Center. Land Rover sales were up 14 percent, helping JLR post a 9-percent gain overall.