CDK said Monday that it expects all dealers to be live with the dealer management system (DMS) by the end of July 3 or early in the morning of July 4.
The company, which supplies software to car dealers, temporarily shut down all of its systems in June as it said it was investigating a cyber incident.
“We are continuing our phased approach to the restoration process and are quickly bringing dealers live on the dealer management system,” CDK said.
CDK also said customer service channels had been restored and the company was “actively working” on bringing other applications live.
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The company said last week that as part of its phased approach, it has brought two small groups and one large listed group of car dealers live on DMS.
The outage forced some U.S. auto dealers to rely on manual paperwork. The auto industry’s technology and software provider worked to restore systems used by more than 15,000 outlets across the country.
Industry experts are predicting slower U.S. auto sales growth in the second quarter as dealers struggle to access critical software due to CDK’s problems.
“While the impact of these attacks will vary by dealer, this event is another bump in the auto industry’s long road to recovery,” said Jessica Caldwell, chief insights officer at Edmunds.
The cyberattack affected about half of Volkswagen dealers and about 60% of Audi dealers in the United States, Reuters reported in June.
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