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

A set of security and cybercrime developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in the largest CCPA privacy settlement to date over driver data exposure; the administrator of darknet marketplace Kingdom Market was sentenced to 16 years after operating a criminal marketplace; a Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing credentials, causing unauthorized email access; multiple universities had to reschedule finals after a Canvas learning-management incident that displayed a cybercriminal group message; and Kaspersky researchers observed shared infrastructure/C2