LONDON: Jaguar Land Rover on Monday said it will partially restart production in the coming days after a damaging cyberattack halted operations at its UK factories. &nbsp;The Indian-owned automaker said on September 2 that it had been targeted by hackers, severely disrupting sales and production and forcing the company to seek emergency funding.&nbsp;&quot;As the controlled, phased restart of our operations continues, we are taking further steps towards our recovery,&quot; JLR said in a statement.&nbsp;&quot;Some sections of our manufacturing operations will resume in the coming days,&quot; it added.&nbsp;The UK government at the weekend agreed to a loan guarantee worth &pound;1.5 billion ($2 billion) to help shore up the firm&#39;s cash reserves and supply chain.&nbsp;A government credit agency will guarantee a commercial bank loan, to be repaid over five years by JLR.&nbsp;IT systems at the company owned by India&#39;s Tata Motors partly came back online last week as part of a phased restart.&nbsp;The partial systems restart helped to clear a backlog of payments to its suppliers, after unions warned that some were at risk of collapse owing to the disruption.&nbsp;As part of its investigation, JLR believes that &quot;some data&quot; was accessed by the hackers, but has provided no further details.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#39;Significant impact&#39;&nbsp; JLR operates the largest supply chain in the UK automotive sector, employing around 120,000 people.&nbsp;It employs 34,000 people directly in its UK operations, with factories in England&#39;s West Midlands and northwest.&nbsp;The government recently warned of &quot;significant impact&quot; from the cyberattack following an emergency meeting with UK car trade body SMMT.&nbsp;According to the BBC, JLR is losing at least &pound;50 million per week in lost production.&nbsp;Cyber gangs have increasingly targeted UK luxury brands and retailers, including Britain&#39;s Marks and Spencer, Harrods and the Co-op food chain.&nbsp;British police in July arrested four people suspected of involvement in attacks against the three retailers, which saw hackers demand ransom payments after breaking into their IT systems.&nbsp;Such cyberattacks have cost companies hundreds of millions of pounds in lost sales.&nbsp;Marks and Spencer, whose online services were crippled for weeks, took a &pound;300-million hit to annual operating profit.&nbsp;While the Co-op on Thursday said the incident impacted its first-half operating profit by &pound;80 million and revenue by &pound;206 million.&nbsp;The cyberattack is the latest setback for JLR, which reported a sharp reduction in sales after it halted exports of its cars to the United States in April in response to President Donald Trump&#39;s tariffs.&nbsp;A trade agreement between London and Washington reduced the tariff on UK car exports to 10 percent from 27.5 percent, on a limit of 100,000 vehicles annually.&nbsp;But the luxury car and SUV maker said it still planned to cut up to 500 UK management jobs.&nbsp;

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Jaguar Land Rover will partly resume UK production after a crippling cyberattack halted operations. The UK government has offered a £1.5 billion loan guarantee, as the firm suffers £50 million weekly losses and investigates data breaches.

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Jaguar Land Rover to partly resume output after cyberattack