Prolonged halt at Merseyside and West Midlands factories is tacit admission that quick resolution is unlikely
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Jaguar Land Rover has told its factory staff to stay home until at least next Tuesday as it continues to deal with the effects of a cyber-attack.
The carmaker has had to stop production at its factories in Merseyside and the West Midlands after hackers infiltrated its systems.
Production workers in Halewood on Merseyside and Solihull in the West Midlands and at JLR’s engine manufacturing site in Wolverhampton have been told to stay away until 9 September, in a tacit admission that a swift resolution to the problem is unlikely.
