Toyota shuts down all Japanese production after supplier is hacked

Enlarge / A worker walks near a Toyota Motor Corp Crown vehicle manufactured on the production line of the company's Motomachi factory on July 30, 2018, in Toyota, Japan. (credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

The world's largest automaker is suspending production at a third of its factories, according to Reuters. Toyota says it will temporarily stop making cars at its Japanese factories after one of its suppliers was hacked.

The company in question is called Kojima Industries, which makes composite and plastic parts for Toyota, both for car interiors and also parts for Toyota's hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles. Reuters quotes a Toyota spokesperson who described the event as a "supplier system failure."

Consequently, on March 1, Toyota will halt 28 production lines at 14 factories across Japan.

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