Honda confirms the cyber-attack impacting its network

Honda has said it is dealing with a cyber-attack that is impacting its operations around the world. It has taken place on the Honda network," the Japanese car-maker said in a statement.

Honda employs nearly 220,000 people worldwide across more than 400 group affiliate companies. The problem was affecting its ability to access its computer servers, use email and otherwise make use of its internal systems. There is also an impact on production systems outside of Japan," it added.

"Work is being undertaken to minimise the impact and to restore full functionality of production, sales and development activities."

Honda makes motorcycles, cars, generators and lawn mowers, among other products, it’s one of its internal servers was attacked externally. The virus had spread" throughout its network, but did not provide further details.

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The company has confirmed that work at the UK plant has been halted alongside a suspension of other operations in North America, Turkey, Italy and Japan. Some cyber-security experts have said it looks like a ransomware attack, which means that hackers might have encrypted data or locked Honda out of some of its IT systems.

The company has insisted no data has been breached and added that "at this point, we see minimal business impact".