The giant car manufacturer Toyota had to shut down all its factories in Japan for a very interesting reason. It turned out that the company’s factory servers ran out of free hard disks and data could not be printed. As a result, production across the country was suspended.
What happened when the server capacity at the Toyota factory ran out?
Toyota has announced that a storage error in its database has disrupted its operations. This affected factories in Japan, causing production to be halted for several days.
Last week, Toyota’s IT systems were undergoing scheduled maintenance. However, before the database transfer was completed, it turned out that the storage capacity was exhausted. This led to the failure of the ordering system. Since the main and backup servers use the same system, operations could not be restored.
According to reports, 12 of Toyota’s 14 assembly plants in Japan have been temporarily shut down following this strange outage. Daily production is estimated to have lost around 13,000 vehicles.
The problem, which led to a two-day outage, was solved when Toyota purchased a server with a larger capacity and moved the ordering system to the new server.
The company confirmed the details and apologized for the disruption. It said that the problems were not caused by a cyber-attack, they just reached the file limit on the hard disk transfer.
This is not the first strange glitch Toyota has experienced. Previously, in May, customer data was leaked due to misconfigurations on servers.
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