Toyota halts operations in most assembly plants in Japan. Details here
Toyota has halted operations at most of its assembly plants in Japan due to a malfunction in the company's production system. Operations were halted on Tuesday morning and a company spokesman said it wasn't clear whether they would resume in the afternoon shift.
Toyota is the world's biggest carmaker by sales and its 14 Japanese plants account for about a third of the company's global production, Reuters reported. A Toyota spokesman told Reuters that the problem was "probably not due to a cyber attack".
He noted that all of the company's domestic assembly plants, with the exception of the Miyata and Kyoto plants, were shut down. A cyber-attack on one of Toyota's suppliers last year halted the company's operations for a day, resulting in a loss of production of around 13,000 cars.
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