Highway thieves are using GPS spoofing and hacked freight broker accounts to steal millions in data center equipment. Since June, thieves have stolen over $100 million in cargo by posting fake shipments, sending malicious links, and taking control of trucking accounts. In some cases, real drivers are unknowingly hired, while others use fake licenses.
Tracking coordinates are spoofed to hide the cargo’s location. Targeted items include servers, fiber-optic cables, memory chips, copper wires, and bitcoin mining machines. Two stolen freights in Illinois contained $300,000 in copper wire and $1 million in modular power equipment.
Another case in Los Angeles involved data center cooling equipment bound for Deepcool AI, recovered among unrelated freight. Experts warn the thefts may harm Americans broadly, not just the AI industry. In two major cases, equipment was never recovered, and off-duty police escorts were targeted in hit-and-runs.
Source: Ars Technica · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing