CDK Global attack leaves 15,000 car dealers on pen and paper
Two cyberattacks on dealership software firm CDK Global forced it to shut systems used by around 15,000 North American dealers, disrupting sales and service for about two weeks.
- Service
- CDK Global
- Date
- 19 June 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- 336 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “CDK Global attack leaves 15,000 car dealers on pen and paper”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 19 Jun 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-06-19-cdk-global-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cdk-global-cyberattack-impacts-thousands-of-us-car-dealerships.
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