# CDK Global Software

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/cdk-global-software/195205>\
**Category:** Buying/Selling\
**Created:** [June 22, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cdk-global-software/195205 "2024-06-22T13:16:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/cdk-global-software/195205/1 "2024-06-22T13:16:05Z")

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CDK Global provides software for common tasks at car dealerships like sales records and scheduling. About 15,000 dealerships use some or all of their products. Their system was hacked on Thursday, 6/19 and they are still trying to recover from it. Not all dealers use this software, but with a little over 18,000 dealerships and 32,000 franchises, that’s a huge chunk of the market. Let me know what the difference is between dealerships and franchises. Did you or someone you know experience this outage?

> **[Can I even buy a car? What to know about the massive auto dealer outage | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/business/cdk-global-car-dealership-outage/index.html)**
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> CDK Global is ubiquitous in the auto dealership world – its software is used at 15,000 dealers. Its products handle everything from records to scheduling.