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It looks like CDK paid a $25 million ransom in crypto to finally end its outage

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CDK Global has apparently paid up in order to end the ransomware attack which recently crippled its operations, and brought a large part of North American car dealership businesses to a screeching halt.

Citing multiple anonymous sources familiar with the matter, CNN claims CDK has paid the attackers $25 million in cryptocurrency to unlock its systems. 

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