If May felt bad, June didn't ease up. ShinyHunters kept up its extortion spree across half a dozen industries, a single supply-chain hack managed to drag half the cybersecurity world into the same breach, and a pharmaceutical giant lost its actual drug formulas. Here's a rundown of the month's most...

In April 2026, police in China's Hubei province started fining ordinary citizens for using a VPN — not companies, not dissidents, just regular people. One person was fined 200 yuan (about $29) for accessing TikTok and X through a VPN. Another was fined 500 yuan for "illegally registering and using V...