All Toyota plants in Japan stopped due to running out of database disk space (2 photos)

The company promised to improve the maintenance of servers.





All 28 assembly lines at 14 enterprises of the automaker Toyota Motor in Japan, accounting for about a third of the world production of this brand of machines, stopped work due to a failure that happened due to lack of memory servers.

"During the work to save data the systematization and destruction of those accumulated in the database were carried out. Due to the fact that there was not enough space on the disk used in the work, An error has occurred that has caused the system to stop." company message.



The incident occurred on August 29 and Toyota Motor did not immediately figured out the reason for the forced shutdown of factories, although representatives the automaker immediately reported that this had nothing to do with the cyberattack. It is noted that the factories resumed work after almost a day - after transferring data to a larger server.

In connection with an unpleasant incident, the management of the automaker apologized to its clients and promised to review its maintenance procedures to prevent such failures.

We add that in March 2022, Toyota was already faced with forced shutdown of factories due to a hacker attack on parts supplier Kojima Industries. It is known that all Japanese factories of the automaker on average produce 13 thousand cars per year. day.