Jaguar Land Rover launches phased restart at factories after cyber-attack

Jaguar Land Rover’s factories have been out of action for more than a month after a cyber-attack. Photograph: Matt Crossick/Alamy

Jaguar Land Rover has launched a phased restart of its manufacturing operations, more than a month after the British carmaker was hit by a crippling cyber-attack, as it revealed its sales had dropped sharply in a “challenging quarter”.

The maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars has been scrambling to get its systems up and running again after the hack on the last day of August forced it to shut down factories and retail operations around the world.