As of September 2023, the largest data privacy violation fine was 1.19 billion USD levied against Didi Global by China. The second-biggest fine was 877 million USD against Amazon by Luxembourg, with the previous largest penalty being a 575 million USD fine on Equifax in 2019.
Go Module Mirror served backdoor to devs for 3+ years
Google’s mirror proxy for Go programming language developers promoted a backdoored package for over three years. The service, Go Module Mirror, fastens and verifies downloads’