Cyberattacks have paralyzed thousands of car dealers. Here’s what you should know.

Two cyberattacks on an industry software provider have left thousands of car dealers unable to complete their business this week.

The cyberattacks on CDK Global, which provides software to nearly 15,000 car dealerships in the U.S. and Canada, caused many dealers to experience an outage in their sales, financing and payroll systems. has forced some car dealers to do business the old-fashioned way.