Tokyo — Honda said on Wednesday it had temporarily halted production at plant in Japan after it suffered a cyberattack from the same ransomware that struck hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide last month. The Japanese car maker said it had shut its plant in Sayama, near Tokyo, on Monday after discovering its computer system was infected with the so-called WannaCry virus. The virus encrypts computer files, making them inaccessible until users pay a ransom. "The malware affected the production of about 1,000 cars," a Honda spokeswoman told AFP. Production had restarted on Tuesday, she said. "There is a possibility that our overseas facilities were also infected…. We’re now investigating that." Honda’s plant produces a number of models including the Accord sedan and Odyssey Minivan. The unprecedented global cyberattacks, which started in mid-May, struck banks, hospitals and government agencies in more than 150 countries, exploiting known vulnerabilities in old Microsoft compute...
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