CDK Global cyberattack impacts thousands of US car dealerships

CDK Global, a SaaS provider supporting about 15,000 North American car dealerships, suffered a major cyber incident that forced the company to take data centers and many systems offline, disrupting dealership operations (DMS, phones, parts ordering, financing) and prompting recommendations to disconnect always-on VPNs; the outage is suspected to be a ransomware attack potentially affecting backups and raising risks of lateral pivoting and data theft.