Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed it suffered a cyber-attack which “severely disrupted” its vehicle production as well as its sales services.

The company said it took immediate action upon discovering the incident to better mitigate its effects, and is working to reinstate its operations as soon as possible.

Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by Tata Motors, said that there was no evidence of any customer data being stolen in the attack.

The attack reportedly began on Sunday, and was detected while in progress, according to BBC reports. The firm shut down its IT systems upon discovery in hopes of minimising any potential damage.

In a statement, the company wrote:

 “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems.

“We are now working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled manner.

“At this stage there is no evidence any customer data has been stolen but our retail and production activities have been severely disrupted.”

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Employees were sent home on Monday, and others were warned in an email to not come into the Halewood plant in Merseyside, as reported by the Liverpool Echo.

The attack may have been purposefully at the end of the month, as a new batch of registration plates became available on the 1st of September, a popular time for car sales and deliveries.

Further details of the attack are currently unknown, and so far no ransomware gang has taken credit for the attack.