CDK Global silent on timeframe to fix [Video]

HOUSTON – A cyberattack on a company that manages sales and paperwork for thousands of auto dealerships across the country is now a week old with no clear end in sight.

Illinois-based CDK Global has not offered much of a public explanation, except to say they shut this system down, when hackers got in last week. It left 15,000 dealerships, and their customers, in a bind that’s forcing some creative work-arounds to keep business moving.

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For most of us, transportation is critical. Drive long enough, and we’ll need to buy a new ride or fix the one we’ve got.

For car-enthusiast Skip Hammons, the cyberattack was a rude awakening, when he needed a part.

“They couldn’t check inventory without physically going on site, putting their hands on a box with it in it, and they couldn’t do an online order, because …