Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has been granted a £1.5 billion (~$A3bn) loan from the British government after it was forced to stop making cars in the wake of a cyber attack almost a month ago. The attack occurred on August 31 but the production pause, which was originally expected to end on September 24, has now been extended, prolonging the impact on supplies of vehicles and on the British automaker’s supply chain itself. Four JLR factories across the UK remain closed as a result; Halewood, Solihull, Wolverhampton and Castle Bromwich. The cyber attack on JLR, which is owned by Indian industrial giant Tata, has also seen the company idling its factories in India, Brazil, and Slovakia. Australian supplies of Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles have not yet been impacted.