GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data
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What happened
This batch of stories covers several significant cyber and privacy developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in a California privacy settlement — the largest fine under the CCPA to date — related to driver data; Slovakian national Alan Bill was sentenced to 16 years after pleading guilty to operating Kingdom Market (a darknet marketplace used by drug dealers and cybercriminals from 2021–2023); a Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing an individual’s password that enabled unauthorized email access; multiple universities had to reschedule final exams_—
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