Car Dealer Software Vulnerable Cybersecurity Crisis

Car dealers in the US and Canada were having difficulty ... CDK Global, the IT firm based in the Chicago area whose software was hacked ... In the olden days companies SOLD software that operated stand alone. Now they lease or rent what I will call software services that remain ... CDK shrouded itself in opacity about the nature of the hack. Emails to dealers have called this event a cyber incident and cyberattack. On ... ... computers are down nationwide . Apparently the software holder (cloud) for most auto dealers in US got hacked on Monday. Then again on... CDK, which provides software to car dealerships, shut down operations Wednesday after back-to-back cyberattacks. Bloomberg reported a group ... A huge cyberattack on CDK Global, a software company that's used by a majority of car dealerships nationwide, is having a crippling impact ... ... software enhancements which are not a material change to ... dealer service departments will take cars joy riding) and track the car usage. CBK was hacked last week, affecting dealerships across North America. CDK, a software provider used by thousands of dealerships across the country has been hacked. For more Local News from WGGB: ... CDK Global was hacked on Juneteenth, and their systems are still down slowing car dealers' holiday sales.