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A major cyberattack is affecting the day-to- day operations of more than 15,000 auto dealerships.
Software establishing the backbone of their operations has been out for multiple days.
Dealers have reported attempted breach attempts by bad actors posing as CDK IT support staff.
The CEO of CDK competitor Tekion said he "couldn't get any sleep" in light of the outage, adding that he and his team are "discussing different options to help" Reynolds and Reynolds is looking to help supply dealers with paper repair orders, forms for purchases and retail installment contracts.
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