Approximately 15,000 auto dealers across the U.S. have been impacted by a major “ransom event” at the end of June against CDK Global, a prominent automotive industry software supplier. Dealers depend on their applications for managing tasks such as inventory, sales, financing, and services – this is called a Dealer Management System, or DMS.
According to CBS News, a spokesperson for CDK Global told them that “Late in the evening of June 19, we experienced an additional cyber incident and proactively shut down most of our systems.