Hack targeting CDK is first time car dealers affected nationwide, Chicago experts say
CHICAGO -- A trip to the car dealership might take a little longer than normal in Chicago these days—as one third of the city's roughly 400 new car dealers are using pen and paper to complete deals.The reason is the software company they use for such transactions has been the victim of a cyber ransomware attack.
Everything from sales to parts and service runs through the technology.'This is the first time dealers have really been affected nationwide,' Bilek said.Bilek said with CDK's system under attack, dealers are getting creative.'What they are doing is reverting back to paper forms and wet signatures, and getting the deals done that way,' said Bilek.Yossi Levi was a car dealer for over a decade and is now known online as 'the car dealership guy.
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