Software provider CDK Global, which works with thousands of car dealerships across the United States, went through a second day of supply disruptions on Thursday following another “cyber incident,” the company told Forbes.
CDK Global spokeswoman Lisa Finney said the company “has proactively shut down most of our systems” and is assessing the effect with experts, adding that it is looking to “restore our facilities and get our distributors back to doing business as usual. “temporarily as much as possible. “
The systems may be down throughout Thursday, according to CNN, which obtained a screenshot from an anonymous broker of a CDK message sent to brokers.
National Automobile Dealers Association President and CEO Mike Stanton told Forbes in an email that dealers are “actively seeking data from CDK on the nature and scope of the cyber incident so that they can respond appropriately. “
The exact time of the first cyberattack is unknown, as reported by CBS News on Tuesday night and Quartz early Wednesday. The individual or group of those incidents is also unknown at this time.
That’s the number of distributors CDK Global works with in North America, according to its website. It’s unclear how many are in the United States, Forbes reached out to CDK Global for more information.
CDK Global offers many facilities and products, such as virtual retail equipment and IT solutions, for automotive industry spaces, aggregating car dealerships and OEMs. In 2014, it was spun off through Automatic Data Processing Inc. and was acquired through Brookfield Business Partners. by $6. 4 billion in 2022, according to Bloomberg.
Car dealerships go through the second day of major computer blackout (CNN)
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