Toyota Motor Corp. will restart all of its plants in Japan on Wednesday following a one-day suspension after a domestic supplier suffered a computer system failure caused by a cyberattack, the company said Tuesday.
The decision comes as Toyota halted operations on Tuesday as a result of the system malfunction at Kojima Industries Corp. in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. The temporary halt affected all 28 of Toyota's domestic production lines across 14 factories, impacting the output of about 13,000 vehicles.
Top government spokesman, Hirokazu Matsuno, told reporters earlier in the day the system failure was caused by a cyberattack, urging other companies to prepare for a heightened risk of such assaults as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.