Honda’s global operations hit by cyber-attack

Honda confirmed in a statement that ‘a cyber-attack has taken place on the Honda network’. 

They added that the problem was affecting their ability to access their computer servers, use email and make use of their internal systems. 

‘There is also an impact on production systems outside of Japan,’ they said. 

‘Work is being undertaken to minimise the impact and to restore full functionality of production, sales and development activities.’

Honda currently runs a factory in Swindon, where it makes its Civic cars, which is due to close in 2021.

The company has confirmed that work at the UK plant has been halted alongside a suspension of other operations in North America, Turkey, Italy and Japan.

However, it added that it hoped some of the affected sites would go back online this afternoon or later this week.

Some cyber-security experts have said it looks like a ransomware attack, which means that hackers might have encrypted data or locked Honda out of some of its IT systems