GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data

This collection summarizes multiple cybersecurity and cybercrime developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in the largest California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement to date related to driver data privacy. The administrator of Kingdom Market was sentenced to 16 years after pleading guilty to running a darknet marketplace used for drug distribution and cybercriminal activity. A Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing a user’s password, enabling unauthorized email access. Dozens of universities had to reschedule final exams after a cyber incident/