Jaguar Land Rover Slowly Resumes Production Activities in Wake of Cyberattack

British automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is struggling to recover from the cyberattack that paralyzed its operations in the UK. The company slowly resumed some production activities this week at its plants, but no formal date has been announced for a full return to normal.

Cyberattack at the end of August
Recall that on August 31, JLR was the victim of a major cyberattack, severe enough in fact that it led executives to completely halt assembly activities.

Since then, the restart of operations has been a long time coming. The recent announcement of a partial restart, moreover, raises more questions than answers, particularly regarding the speed of the recovery and the real impacts on the British automotive sector's economy.

According to the latest information, production is first resuming at the Wolverhampton engine plant before being gradually relaunched at the group's other British factories.

A slow restart
It will still take several weeks for JLR to return to the pre-cyberattack production rate of about 1,000 vehicles per day. The other production sites in the UK will be "brought back to normal gradually," according to the BBC, without any specific timeline being provided by JLR's senior management.

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