Jaguar Land Rover 'faces disruption until October'

Production at Jaguar Land Rover and dozens of its suppliers is to remain on hold for at least this week, with disruption from a cyber-attack at the carmaker expected to last until October.

- Sarah Butler

The UK's biggest car manufacturer, owned by India's Tata Group, halted production after discovering hackers had infiltrated its systems a week ago.

Thousands of production workers at the UK's biggest car manufacturing sites in Halewood on Merseyside, and Solihull and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands have already been told to stay away until tomorrow. They will continue to be paid as usual and "bank" their hours to be picked up later on.

JLR will update workers today on plans for the week. It is thought likely that thousands will be kept on pause until at least Thursday and probably beyond at JLR's operations in the UK and in Slovakia, Brazil and India as well as at dozens of suppliers.