Car production at Jaguar Land Rover stalls after a cyber attack.

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Guy Kilty. Good morning.

A cyber incident has caused major production problems at the car maker Jaguar Land Rover.

Both of its two main factories in the UK are affected.

The company,

which is owned by India's Tata Motors, said it took immediate action and is working quickly to restart operations. The BBC's Maura Foggetty has more.

Jaguar Land Rover is saying that they're classifying it as severely disrupted. They actually

never called it a cyber attack. They called it an IT incident

causing global issues. I think the exact language they use. But the result is this. It caused

two factories in England to be shut down. We understand that they discovered the attack

while it was ongoing, and then they shut down their IT systems

in order to kind of minimize any damage. So the security protocols they had in place, I guess

you could say, were working to the point where they could detect it and then shut it down.

The BBC's Morafogity. Now, this comes at a really key point in the year for sales in the UK.

New batches of cars are released twice annually in March and in September with updated licence plates.

And this attack hit JLR on the first day of the plate change.

The former CEO of Aston Martin, Andy Palmer, says the timing is hugely damaging.

This is the time of the year where you sell the greater majority of

your car sales and obviously you've got your whole systems for production, making sure that

you've got cars in stock, cars ready to go to the retail and your retail operations and

to have to stop them all rise in this prime time is really,

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