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According to foreign media reports, Honda Motor Company was attacked by cyber hackers a few days ago, resulting in the suspension of production in many countries, as well as the closure of customer and financial operations. However, the company is trying to get back to normal and has now resumed most of its production.

In response to this situation, Honda also issued a statement that although the company suffered from the network affected by the spread of the computer virus to the entire system network, resulting in the suspension of business in North America, Turkey, Italy and Japan, but because the impact of the virus is very small, important data has not been leaked, the company is currently trying to minimize the impact And will resume production, sales and R & D activities as soon as possible.

However, Japanese media reported that Honda had been shut down for at least three days due to the virus, so the impact was not minor. Honda's internal network system failure first occurred on the 7th of this month, when Honda suspended vehicle shipments at its domestic factories in Japan and halted all production at seven car plants in North America on the 8th due to the spread of the network virus.

It is understood that the virus enables the software to encrypt files on the internal network, and most importantly, the virus does not support decryption, which means that the attacker can only pay a ransom to recover the files. So it is not clear whether Honda is affected by the blackmail software.

Honda's customer service department also wrote on June 8, "at present, Honda customer service and Honda financial services encounter technical difficulties and cannot be used." We are trying our best to solve the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patient cooperation and understanding.

It is worth mentioning that on Friday, a public relations firm in Honda also received an anonymous bomb threat message, and after receiving the threat message, it also urgently arranged for employees to evacuate the headquarters building in Shiliu, Tokyo, and security personnel immediately cordoned off the building and nearby commercial facilities.

In fact, due to the spread of the novel coronavirus epidemic in North America, Honda shut down a number of factories on March 23 and did not announce the resumption of work until early May. On the other hand, the Japanese mainland returned to work relatively early and resumed work in mid-April. Obviously, Honda has not fully returned to normal due to the impact of the epidemic, and has fallen into the impact of a network virus, which undoubtedly makes its sales for the whole year even worse.

Although the impact of the network virus does not include China, with the strong recovery of market demand in China, the company still suffered heavy losses in the fiscal quarter to March. Data show that the group's comprehensive sales revenue in fiscal year 2020 was 14.931 trillion yen, down 6.0% from a year earlier, and its comprehensive operating profit was 633.6 billion yen, down 12.8% from a year earlier, a four-year low.

To mitigate the impact of the current epidemic on the company, Honda plans to increase production at its Chinese factories by 10 per cent in May from a year earlier, but according to Honda's latest sales figures in China, Honda became the only Japanese brand in China to decline in May, with a total of 124230 vehicles sold through the two channels, down 1.7 per cent from a year earlier. It means that it is still a question whether the Honda brand, which had the strongest performance in China last year, can maintain last year's sales target.

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