GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data
2026-05-10T20:51:55Z•6b0d13fdfe8d2bcfc058c5a614ae13d452966a04c386a1b14ca4d7a34de31c26
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A collection of cybersecurity and legal news: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in California under the CCPA — the largest such fine to date; Kingdom Market administrator Alan Bill was sentenced to 16 years for running a darknet marketplace used by drug dealers and cybercriminals; a Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing credentials to access an email account; dozens of universities rescheduled final exams after a Canvas (Instructure) cyber incident that displayed a cybercriminal message to students; and Kaspersky reported overlapping infrastructure and C2
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