What to know about the massive car dealership outage | CNN Business

A customer looks at vehicles for sale at an AutoNation Toyota dealership in Hayward, California, US, on Monday, June 24, 2024. The hack that's disrupted business at thousands of car dealerships in North America is now in the process of getting resolved, the targeted software provider CDK Global said. New York CNN — CDK Global is still down heading into the brisk car-selling Fourth of July holiday next week. Auto dealerships use its software to manage everything from scheduling to records, and the mass outage since last week has paralyzed nearly 15,000 dealerships across North America. CDK said last Saturday that it has begun restoring its software, but both car buyers and dealers are currently at a standstill. It has suggested several times that a fix is in order, only to say then that its systems would remain out of commission for a while longer. Here’s what you need to know about the massive software outage. What does CDK Global do? CDK Global provides data and technology to differen...