a cyber-attack has severely disrupted jaguar land Rover (JLR) vehicle production, including at its two main UK plants.
The company, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, said it took immediate litigate to lessen the impact of the jade and is working quickly to restart operations.
JLR's retail business has also been badly hit at a traditionally a popular time for consumers to take delivery of a new vehicle - but there is no evidence any customer data had been stolen, it said.
The assault began on sunday as the latest batch of new enrollment plates became available on Monday, 1 September.
The BBC understands that the assail was detected while in progress, and the fellowship shut down its IT systems in an effort to minimise any damage.
Workers at the company's Halewood set in Merseyside were told by email early on monday morning not to come into act piece others were sent home, as first reported by the Liverpool Echo.
The BBC understands the assault has also hit JLR's other main UK manufacturing set at Solihull, with staff there also sent home.
The troupe said: We took immediate litigate to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems. We are now working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled manner.