The British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) suffered a cyberattack, leading the company to order factory workers to remain at home until Tuesday at the earliest. 

Earlier this week, JLR confirmed that a cyber incident targeting its global IT systems has caused “severe disruption” to operations at production and retail sites. 

The Liverpool Echo reported that JLR employees were stood down from work on Friday and Monday. JLR explained the closure was caused by its proactive shutdown of systems to reduce the effects of the attack. 

In its initial statement, JLR said it was “working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled manner. At this stage there is no evidence any customer data has been stolen but our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted.” 

Details about the nature of the incident remain unknown, but a group of English-speaking cybercriminals has taken responsibility on Telegram, providing data they allege originated from JLR’s internal systems. 

The Information Commissioner’s Office, Britain’s data protection regulator, confirmed that Jaguar Land Rover has reported a data breach incident.