Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo

NBC News reported that since June, highway thieves have stolen more than $100 million in data center freight by hacking freight brokers' accounts, posting fake shipments, and sending malicious links that let them take over trucking companies' accounts. Cargo is collected via unwitting drivers or fake licenses and transferred to accomplices for resale, with tracking coordinates spoofed in one of the largest thefts; targeted equipment includes servers, fiber-optic cables, memory chips, copper wire, and bitcoin mining machines. In two of the largest thefts none of the equipment was recovered, and off-duty police escorts were targeted in hit-and-runs.