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Episode: North American car dealerships revert to pen and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
Description: Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last month with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector.
CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks. That led to an outage that has continued to impact operations.
For prospective car buyers, that meant delays at dealerships or vehicle orders written up by hand. There's no immediate end in sight, with CDK saying it expects the restoration process to take “several days” to complete.
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