2023-09-27 20:27:03
An IT malfunction paralyzed the Volkswagen Group’s central infrastructure on Wednesday. Production in several plants is at a standstill, a company spokesman confirmed in the evening. “The disruption has existed since 12.30 p.m. (…) There are implications for vehicle producing plants,” said the spokesman. The VW subsidiary Audi is also affected. Nothing is known about the cause. Anything from a breakdown to a hacker attack is possible, said a responsible IT service provider.
“We can confirm an IT malfunction of network components at the Wolfsburg location,” said the spokesman. The four plants in Wolfsburg, Emden, Zwickau and Osnabrück are at a standstill. According to the “Handelsblatt” report, a crisis team was convened. The component plants in Kassel, Braunschweig and Salzgitter are also affected – as is the VW subsidiary Audi. The extent to which this is the case is still being investigated, as an Audi spokeswoman said in the evening when asked by the dpa.
According to an IT service provider responsible for the company’s networks, this is a global disruption. “The production lines have stopped everywhere since this afternoon – all over the world. Audi and VW are affected,” she told the dpa on Wednesday evening. “We have a huge problem.”
It is not possible to say exactly how long the disruption will last. The IT specialist at VW and Audi’s external network service provider assumes that the disruption will keep IT busy at least until Thursday. One cannot say how this came about. Anything from a breakdown to a hacker attack is possible.
At the end of August, VW’s rival Toyota was affected by a total failure. At the Japanese car giant, technical problems led to a complete loss of production in Japan for about a day. An error in the parts order management system was to blame. It was later said that the cause was insufficient storage space on servers. It was emphasized that the incident was not a cyber attack.
Toyota had to close all of its factories just last March after its domestic supplier Kojima Industries suffered a system failure caused by a cyber attack. All 28 Toyota production lines in its 14 factories were also affected, affecting the production of around 13,000 vehicles. The group was also forced to temporarily halt part of its operations in July after a cyberattack on a computer system at the port of Nagoya, a Toyota hub, disrupted port services for two days.
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