GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data
2026-05-08T20:51:56Z•6f0c0703aa7d325891b675b47c67487a364eb1a54eefee3c54b71ff71cec241b
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What happened
Collection of cybersecurity and privacy developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in the largest-ever CCPA fine related to collection/use of driver data; the administrator of Kingdom Market was sentenced to 16 years after running a darknet marketplace used by drug dealers and cybercriminals; a Virginia man was convicted for stealing credentials and deleting 96 government databases; multiple universities had to reschedule finals following a Canvas (Instructure) platform incident where students saw a message from a cybercriminal group; and Kaspersky researchers reported overlapping tooling
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- 2026-05-08T20:51:56Z
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