Car dealership outages drag on after CDK cyberattacks

CDK Global, a provider of dealer management and customer-vehicle record software used by roughly 15,000 North American dealerships, suffered back-to-back cyberattacks beginning June 19 that knocked its DMS and integrations offline; reporting identifies the incident as a ransomware attack (linked to BlackSuit) with attackers reportedly demanding tens of millions of dollars, causing prolonged outages and operational disruption for major dealership groups while restoration efforts continue and data-impact remains uncertain.