SONIC AUTOMOTIVE INC

Sonic Automotive could not sell cars for the better part of two weeks, not because its own network fell but because CDK Global, the single vendor running its dealer management system, was ransomwared by a crew reporting ties to BlackSuit. When one SaaS provider is the floor beneath every franchise's sales, inventory, and accounting, its outage is the dealership's outage. Sonic booked a material hit to the quarter over software it did not run and could not bring back.