German car giant Volkswagenexperienced a strange problem on Wednesday, September 27 (yesterday). Due to a malfunction in the company’s IT systems, Volkswagen was unable to produce for the entire day. Sub-brands of Europe’s largest carmaker were also affected by the outage. Volkswagen, together with brands such as Porsche and Audi, which produce in Germany, is also active all day long. cannot produce explained.

According to Volkswagen’s statement at the company’s global headquarters in Wolfsburg: caused by network components There was a problem. The cause of the problem was not understood, but the malfunction led to the halt of production at Volkswagen factories. Audi The company’s statements noted that an analysis had been conducted to determine the extent of the disruption that caused production to stop. Porsche has made no statement about this.

Fortunately, the problem is not a cyber attack

The disruption at Volkswagen was caused by network components, Cyber ​​attack brought the possibility to mind. However, Volkswagen stated that the cause of the system failure came from outside, such as a cyber attack. doesn’t seem likely he explained. The company has set up a crisis office for the problem and continues to work to understand the problem and prevent it from happening again.

In the meantime; The problem at Volkswagen is much bigger can be large-scale It is also spoken. According to German news sources, factories producing spare parts also had to halt production. In addition, not only Germany, Volkswagen almost all factories It is reported that he was affected by this situation. According to the information obtained, internal software, such as the e-mail services used by Volkswagen, does not work properly.