Khristopher J. Brooks is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. He previously worked as a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald, Newsday and the Florida Times-Union. His reporting primarily focuses on the U.S.

The auto industry was trying to size up, and minimize, damage from a cyberattack this week that disrupted how dealers operate. CDK Global software customers Sonic Automotive, and Penske Automotive ...

ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Germain Honda of Ann Arbor has experience with having limited access to its dealer management system. The store lost power for 11 days in February and March 2023 — courtesy of a ...

New York (CNN) — A CDK Global system outage has affected nearly every aspect of the Mazda dealership in Seekonk, Massachusetts, where Ryan Callahan is general sales manager. He says it won’t be a ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Roughly 15,000 car dealerships across the US and Canada ...

CDK Global, a major car dealership software company utilized by thousands of dealers nationwide, is picking up the pieces after a cyberattack resulted in a multi-day system shutdown. The initial ...

Auto dealerships use CDK’s software to manage everything from scheduling to records, and CDK said Saturday it has begun restoring its software. On Tuesday, CDK said it doesn’t believe its systems will ...

The CDK Global outage likely will impact AutoNation Inc. and Sonic Automotive Inc. the hardest in second-quarter earnings, analysts say. Both the second- and sixth-largest publicly traded dealership ...

AutoCanada, fighting to bring itself back to profitability, and CDK, recovering from the financial and reputational sting of a devastating cyberattack, are in it together. The dealership software ...

A group of hackers claiming responsibility for a cyberattack on CDK’s software systems has demanded millions of dollars in ransom to put an end to the hack, which affected auto dealers across the ...

CDK kept two more large clients in its fold, announcing multi-year renewals of its agreements with Fred Beans Automotive Group and Tasca Automotive Group. The dealership software provider said both ...