Jaguar Land Rover getting 'daily' support as workers told to stay at home

Jaguar Land Rover is getting "daily" enactment from the authorities aft past week's cyber attack, which has crushed its operations to a halt.

The British car shaper shut down operations erstwhile it spotted the onslaught past Tuesday, and its unit person been told to stay astatine location since.

Sky News understands JLR workers are not owed backmost astatine enactment connected Wednesday, with accumulation suspended for different day.

When asked for a timeline connected erstwhile operations would resume for each of the company's 34,000 UK workers, concern curate Sir Chris Bryant said: "I privation that I could supply one, but I cannot.

"This is simply a precise unrecorded concern that has been ongoing for a week."

He besides said helium could not stock details connected who was down the attack, contempt hacking radical Scattered Spider claiming responsibility.

Scattered Spider was blamed for the attacks connected British retailers earlier this year, which are thought to person outgo M&S astir £300m.

Four radical were arrested for their suspected engagement successful the April attacks and person been bailed.

Asked whether the incidental was linked to the M&S onslaught earlier this year, Mr Bryant said helium could not accidental arsenic helium "didn't know".

"I bash not deliberation anybody has travel to immoderate unafraid decisions connected that," helium said.

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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has invited section MPs whose constituents are impacted by the shutdown to a Q&A league connected Friday.

"The JLR Halewood works successful my constituency is an important and valued employer," said Labour MP Derek Twigg, who asked an urgent question astir the government's effect to the onslaught successful the Commons connected Tuesday.

"Many of my constituents are employees, which is besides the lawsuit for my neighbouring Merseyside MPs. Thousands of jobs successful the proviso concatenation person been affected."

JLR employs 39,000 radical astir the world, with galore much moving successful its proviso chains.

Mr Twigg warned: "There could beryllium an ongoing and adjacent much superior effect connected our economy."

In his response, Sir Chris said: "We simply cannot spend immoderate grade of complacency successful this.

"There are large criminals operating successful this space, arsenic good arsenic immoderate malicious authorities actors, and immoderate 40% of companies successful the UK past twelvemonth reported that they had faced immoderate benignant of cyber attack.

"So it is simply a precise important contented that we instrumentality seriously."

JLR said it continues "to enactment astir the clock" to restart enactment successful a "controlled and harmless manner".

"We are precise atrocious for the disruption this incidental has caused. Our retail partners stay unfastened and we volition proceed to supply further updates."