GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data
2026-05-09T08:52:03Z•6b1d3b99112a730ce94f3dae05b323b7d0a03cc911c3de96ca8961536c81fba6
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What happened
Multiple security and legal developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in a California CCPA settlement—the largest CCPA fine to date—related to driver data privacy. A Slovakian national who administered the Kingdom Market darknet marketplace was sentenced to 16 years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. A Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing another individual’s password, enabling unauthorized email access. Dozens of universities rescheduled final exams after a compromise or malicious message appeared in Canvas, a
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