(Reuters) -Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), owned by India’s Tata Motors, said on Monday it will resume some of its manufacturing operations in the coming days, as the luxury carmaker begins a phased recovery following a cyber attack earlier this month.
This comes a day after Britain said it will back JLR with a $2 billion loan guarantee to help support its supply chain in the wake of the production shutdown after the attack.
Ratings agency Moody’s affirmed the automaker’s Ba1 corporate family rating, but revised its outlook to negative from positive.
The Ba1 rating reflects that it will likely withstand the impact of the cyber incident, says Sweta Patodia, an assistant Vice President and analyst at Moody’s.
“The outlook-change to negative from positive reflects our view that a full recovery in credit metrics will likely take several months,” she added.
JLR has already struggled this year, reporting a near 11% quarterly sales drop in July, due, in part, to a temporary pause in shipments to the United States after the Donald Trump administration imposed tariffs on all car imports.
While the automaker resumed exports to the U.S. in May, it slashed its fiscal 2026 profit margin target to 5%-7% from 10% amid continuing uncertainty around U.S. tariff policies.
The company has three factories in Britain that manufacture a total of about 1,000 cars per day. According to the BBC, it is losing at least 50 million pounds ($68 million) a week after the shutdown of its factories, with many of its 33,000 staff told to stay at home.
Last week, JLR said it told suppliers that some systems were online, including the ones that control the supply of parts worldwide and the financial system that controls the wholesale of vehicles. It also said its capacity to process invoices had increased.
The breach was the latest in a string of cyber and ransomware attacks targeting companies around the world. In Britain, household names including Marks & Spencer and the Co-op Group have fallen victim to increasingly sophisticated breaches.
(Reporting by Urvi Dugar; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Janane Venkatraman)
