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Highway thieves have stolen more than $100 million in data center equipment since June, employing increasingly sophisticated tactics such as forging driver IDs and spoofing GPS tracking systems. NBC News (paywalled) reports that thieves have "made away with more than $100 million in data center freight." Ars Technica reports: Here's how they said thieves get away with it: First, thieves hack freight brokers' accounts on shipment-listing websites and post fake shipments to lure real bids, then send a malicious link to any trucking companies that respond. Once victims click, thieves install software to take control of their accounts and start bidding on real shipments. Sometimes, a real delivery driver is hired to collect the cargo, unaware of the scam, and other times fake driver's licenses are used to get accomplices hired. Either way, the goods are eventually transferred to a driver working with the thieves to resell the gear, and, in one of the largest thefts, tracking coordinates were spoofed to prevent digital monitoring. Equipment commonly targeted includes "servers, fiber-optic cables, computer memory chips, copper wires, and bitcoin mining machines," NBC News reported.

Some trailers hit seem to be carrying only data center equipment, like two stolen freights found in Illinois. The Cook County Sheriff's Office estimated those contained $300,000 worth of copper wire spools and about $1 million in "custom-made data center modular power solutions equipment," NBC News reported. Other trucks impacted were carrying additional freight, like a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department case where "data center cooling equipment" bound for Deepcool AI was recovered among nicotine pouches, televisions, shoes, printers, speakers, and skin care cosmetics. Experts worry that means Americans may be broadly harmed by the thefts, not just the AI industry.

While some stolen goods have been recovered, in two of the largest thefts that NBC News found, none of the equipment was found, and off-duty cops hired to escort the shipments were targeted in hit-and-runs. [...] Broadly, cargo thieves are infiltrating email accounts to find lucrative shipments, misdirecting shipments, disrupting GPS tracking, and using AI to create fake driver's licenses to get accomplices hired as delivery drivers. LASD's Sgt. David Pantoja told NBC News "that's how most of it is being done," which is a big shift from the past when highway thefts were largely opportunistic.
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  • This is happening shipping industry wide.

    Guy Fieri had trucks full of his high end tequila stolen and he went public with the issue.

    I think it turned out a lot of the drivers are illegal aliens, so tracking them down is nearly impossible.

    • This is happening shipping industry wide.

      Guy Fieri had trucks full of his high end tequila stolen and he went public with the issue.

      I think it turned out a lot of the drivers are illegal aliens, so tracking them down is nearly impossible.

      When "high end", ends up looking like a Hollywood script hack.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0OIZ9zCFY

      The CSO probably wanted to call the training clip "Why Supply Chain Security Matters" back then. To no ones regard.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )

      I think it turned out a lot of the drivers are illegal aliens, so tracking them down is nearly impossible.

      Perhaps you should be asking why the trucking company failed to file the proper I-9 employment forms?

      • Why would I do that? Shouldn't there be at least minimal Government oversight?

        Oh wait, now I get it, this is "racist" or something. We can't have oversight that would leave businesses without the under the table wages Americans won't work for.

        • Is the government supposed to sit at all truck stops and depots checking documentation of every truck driver or should employers be on the hook for hiring people with authorization to work in US?

          • No, at weigh stations. Where the government weighs the trucks and checks the paperwork.

            But it isn't either/or. Employers are on the hook as well.

        • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

          by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 )

          1. That's usually left to the states, they're the ones who assign CDLs
          2. If we were serious about Federal enforcement it means actually funding such enforcement measures and also putting competent people in charge. I'm sure Kash Patel and Mark Wayne Mullins will get right on top of this economically complex issue.
          3. If we don't want immigration enforcement to be called racist we should not put racists in charge of it, have them do a bunch of racist stuff and say they are doing things to be racist.

          If we wan

          • I dunno... after the fifth Jose Gonzalez comes in with the same social security card, I'd maybe start wondering.
            If their Green Card or immigration paperwork or VISA doesn't check out 1,000%, they shouldn't be behind the wheel... maybe a citizen could use a job.

            I'm sure if it was you or me behind the wheel, we might wonder why we're delivering half a million of computer gear to a rundown old gas station.

            • Then maybe we need actual immigration reform, something which has not been done in about 4 decades now.

              Turns out not all citizens want to be truck drivers either, it's not an easy job! The issue is administrative, migrants who want to drive trucks should have a path to do so and do it safely.

              I'm sure if it was you or me behind the wheel, we might wonder why we're delivering half a million of computer gear to a rundown old gas station.

              I've dealt with hundreds of truck deliveries in my line of work with hundreds of different drivers of all walks of life. They deliver where dispatch tells them, if the BOL says rundown old gas station that's where it

          • DHS is actively cracking down on illegal aliens with CDLs. Which, logically, is usually going to look at least a little racist. Enough so that people will dishonestly claim that race is the motivation if it suits their political agenda. And that is what is happening.
      • One of the problems that's stuck out for me when I read the article was that they use layers and layers of contractors before somebody is actually driving a truck.

        The reason for that is to avoid legal liability and paying benefits. I think especially the legal liability although it does help that they can underpay the driver's massively. There are examples of drivers making pennies a week because of the scams they run them through.

        And God help you if you get hit by a semi.

        Every single company in

        • They'll make you feel grateful and guilty about taking a $1,000 settlement if someone dies from a negligent truck driver lol. "How lucky you are to get this from us!"

          • It surprises you that insurance companies will try and low-ball a settlement?

            And remember, it is the insurance company that you're dealing with, not the driver and not whoever owns the truck.

        • In my area the truckers most likely to kill me are loggers, and they are mostly sole proprietors. Unfortunately they are also all broke.

        • No, the reason for that is the unusual nature of the trucking industry, where a lot of the drivers own their trucks and act as independent owner-operators shipping on a contract basis. On top of that is the fact that most places that need to ship things by truck don't ship so much that they need to own their own. They go to a shipping company.

          And no, they aren't rapidly-folding shells either. I've worked for a trucking company. My wife has run a trucking company. They don't work the way you seem to

        • Well, of course... "Jose Gonzalez doesn't work for SJW Trucking, he was hired by JWT Trucking... but he's getting that load of whatever there on time... you can talk to him when he gets there, but I'm not sure where he is exactly".

          Same as the MI apple orchards... the apples are picked, and shipped on time... the normal person has no idea nor cares that the illegal immigrant guy who picked that apple only got paid $0.005 for picking that apple.

          Don't worry... once the harvesting robots from "Logan" take over

      • Perhaps you should be asking why the trucking company failed to file the proper I-9 employment forms?

        I take it you have never hired anyone. An I-9 is just a form that says "the new employee showed me ID and it said this ..." and then it goes into the HR file folder. It does not go to the government for validation or approval.

        It does not mean that the ID is real, or that it belonged to the employee. Fake IDs exist. People can "borrow" or steal someone else's ID. Unless you are performing an in-depth background check on someone it is easy enough to fake. There are hundreds of millions of people in the e

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Tailhook ( 98486 )

      a lot of the drivers are illegal aliens, so tracking them down is nearly impossible.

      Indeed they are. It seems that, for the purposes of social justice, regular drivers licenses and CDLs, complete with "Real ID" markers, are now mere formalities that can be had in several of our most just states, without even providing a name [dhs.gov]. I suppose that to the degree this facilitates hijacking freight, this is only yet more social justice. Win-win for everyone.

    • As the story says, they also use Fake IDs. The drivers may not even exist, at least the identity on the ID doesn't.

      • When I was at The Geek Group in MI, the machine that made our Lab IDs was capable of doing state IDs (told so by Moose... if you wanna know more, watch the videos)... she said that the printer had to be licensed... despite that, I'm sure anyone with some $$$$ can get one and do whatever with it.

        Where ever (or, should that really be one word?) you are, how sure are you that every driver you see, (and, hopefully not... but, still) or hit by actually has a legit license?

        And... what me and you see of the normal

    • In Africa, people steal entice trains - locomotive, wagons, containers, the lot

  • What's The Average? (Score:3)

    by SlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:08PM (#66394280)

    What is the historical average rate of truck freight theft?

    This headline sounds like an Oceans Eleven fantasy. The actual article more mundane than the headline. But the story is still interesting and oddly sophisticated for truck freight theft. Despite that, I have a nagging feeling that this isn't really novel or an increase and that it is being reported simply because data centers are the current news cycle.

    • That's why it's on Slashdot. High value thefts are increasing but most are by traditional methods. Fraudulent pickups and carrier impersonation are simple, easy and allow ample time to unload cargo.

      Value rose ~725 million dollars for 2025 so a drop in the economic swimming pool. That's hardly impressive in an economy the size of the US.

      High value load tracking and hiring private security guards will be natural responses.

      • And why does that type of theft not happen in other countries?

        I am sure, you have an MAGA explanation, why that is so.

        • Oh, it does... anything valuable at all.
          The governments of those places don't report it publicly because that makes them look weak and shows a weakness in their "shipping" system... the reason the US makes it public is because there's a ton of ways to spend money to make it more secure.
          And... it has absolutely nothing to do with MAGA or anything... the fact of the matter has been that the cargo shipping systems have been getting cheaper with pay and paying the chase cars for years now... before MAGA... and,

    • Re:What's The Average? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Whateverthisis ( 7004192 ) on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:55PM (#66394402)
      I worked in construction a few years (decades actually) ago. When copper surged in price, which was mainly due to China joining the WTO and starting it's massive infrastructure build out, several materials shot up in price. Copper in particular was notorious because there were plenty of recycling centers who would pay cash and asked no questions as it was unregulated at the time; it was easy to convert to cash quickly. We had guys get caught with 50lbs of copper wire under their shirts, because the paid price for copper went from $1.00/lb to around $4.00/lb; for a guy doing general labor 50lbs of stolen copper was another $200 cash he made that day. The petty theft guys were a nuisance, but the industrial scale theft was enormous.

      Copper is now $6.80-ish/lb. A spool of copper wire headed to a data center might be worth $8,000-$10,000 at a scrap yard.

      Some research is showing that the number of incidents is relatively flat, but the value of incidents has nearly doubled because data center infrastructure is far more valuable than retail goods which were historically hit. This report [fleetequipmentmag.com] shows that truck theft incidents are down around 26%, but overall losses are double. So it's technically a valid story on Slashdot, as it is the overall value of the goods in the truck headed to data centers that has shifted the pattern just because of it's far higher value and relatively easy way to turn the goods into money.

      • How long before we start deploying remotely piloted and full autonomous drones to fly escort missions for cargo runs? There have been numerous instances of cargo theft from trailers, or hijacked full loads when drivers were doing their mandated federal rest stop. I would assume things would eventually escalate to wifi and anti-drone jamming for higher value loads, but those are extremely visible attacks (the signals equivalent of taking bolt cutters to your power line). At that point, you'd have actual a

        • It would be a lot cheaper to have a rocket beacon.

        • Predator-style drones can't fly as slow as semis.

          Not to mention, if the paperwork and GPS is saying to haul a full load of NPUs to a little burnt-out gas station in the middle of nowhere, I maybe might question it.

          Too expensive to send armed guards with all long-haul trucks. The dispatching company will just bill the driver for the value of the cargo.

        • That's some cyberpunk style concept there, but I would argue the answer is never. The reason is simple: that wouldn't do anything. These hijackings are not like a Fast and Furious movie, done at high speed on the highway. It's GPS spoofing, or inserting false drivers with fake IDs, who send the truck to some wrong destination, the goods are stolen and the truck dumped or sent on it's way. What is a drone going to do? There's no world where a drone-based law enforcement is going to be allowed, so they'r

          • I don't think it's going to happen but what a drone would do is track the trailer from above (you could paint a QR code or similar on top for the purpose of recognition) and collect evidence. A big part of the reason these thefts work is GPS jamming, but you could put a shielded antenna on top of your drone.

            • For the drone... are you talking military jet-style drone or are you talking about the more civilian-style ones?
              The civvy ones have limited flight ranges (unless you build wireless charging into it... or come up with a mid-flight battery-swap system)... the military ones can't fly at 65MPH... best option is chase cars with an armory in the back.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      What is the historical average rate of truck freight theft?

      This headline sounds like an Oceans Eleven fantasy. The actual article more mundane than the headline. But the story is still interesting and oddly sophisticated for truck freight theft. Despite that, I have a nagging feeling that this isn't really novel or an increase and that it is being reported simply because data centers are the current news cycle.

      Trailer theft is a huge thing. Drivers may have parked their rigs on the side of the highway and t

      • The servers will be almost impossible to sell in this country. So... They will go into a container headed for China, where there is lots of demand for them, especially the ones they aren't allowed to buy.

        • You're very right... hijack an American semi loaded with all the stuff to build an AI server farm, get it across the border (either North or South), fence it to China and make a ton of cash, ironically selling it back to where it came from... then, it can be sold again.
          I know the problem would be the refund policies, but there's probably some clause in there that even though you didn't get the thing, you can't get a refund.

          • They definitely don't have to take them across a border.

            • heh heh... I mean, before putting them on a ship :)

              • I'll allow that, bud.
                Meh... we all fail to say it all in one post sooner or later.

                Well, slapping it on a ship in Cali or Seattle without all the right papers might raise flags... do it in Canada or Mexico, less chance someone will say something (especially with a wad of cash).

        • Why would they be impossible to sell? Anyone could grab any server they can get access to and flash a new BIOS and install a new OS after DoS formatting the drive(s), and nobody would ever know. Hint: it's a computer.

          There's many ways to change the computer's individual identity enough that Dell or whoever won't know about it, and tracking one single CPU or GPU to a single location ain't easy (not to mention worth doing).

      • You might steal a trailer that is full of nickels. But now you need to somehow get rid of $50K worth of nickels.
        There was a case in Germany, when silver prices exploded, and the 5 Mark (at that time a about $1.50 - the Dollar was pretty high, in our times Euro 2,50 - but by inflation perhaps only Euro 1), that count had about 65% silver.
        People started to horde the coins to smelt them ... it pretty quickly lead to a replacement of those coins. I mean: a new kind of coin, mostly nickel, was introduced.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by mjwx ( 966435 )

      What is the historical average rate of truck freight theft?

      This headline sounds like an Oceans Eleven fantasy. The actual article more mundane than the headline. But the story is still interesting and oddly sophisticated for truck freight theft. Despite that, I have a nagging feeling that this isn't really novel or an increase and that it is being reported simply because data centers are the current news cycle.

      Lorry theft is a thing but usually is done by driving up, hitching a trailer you're not meant to and driving off. Sometimes they're as sophisticated as to mock up some fake paperwork to get past a gate guard. A few years back someone got away with £5 million worth of Jaguar/Land Rover engines by just driving up to the factory with some fake paperwork and driving off with a trailer, it worked so well they went back the same day for a second trailer.

      • I seriously doubt they're doing it Fast & Furious style.
        Extremely much more likely, I'd figure someone just backs into the freight yard and snags a trailer loaded with whatever.

    • The sophistication makes it particularly interesting. As does the likelihood that the hardware is ending up in nations prohibited from getting it. Something this sophisticated requires quite a lot of organization. Who's organizing it?

  • A society falling apart, lead by a regime that normalizes bad behavior is going to have more and bigger problems like this.

    • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Tablizer ( 95088 )

      We can't blame all this on the Clowntator, but he has had the FBI take a lot of focus off of real crimes to chase alleged illegal immigrants with "crimes" such a parking tickets, alleged voter fraud, and political opponents. Plus, a lot of experienced people left the FBI who didn't want to be part of the Gasstapo.

      Thus, a cause, no, contributor yes.

      • 'Clowntator'?

        Never heard that one before at all.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Tablizer ( 95088 )

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      • The rise of the AI companies is also a sign of society falling apart. A healthy society wouldn't put all of its eggs in this basket and allow it to threaten all the pensions.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Tablizer ( 95088 )

          Our economy depends on bubbles. Our debt is too large to have decent stimuluses, and thus we've been relying on bubbles to re-juice the economy after the prior bubble whacks us. It's like a crack addict: we need another hit to mask the pain of the prior.

          Although there are fuzzier earlier examples, this started when the dot-com bubble rescued us from the Glasnost aerospace slump (made famous by the movie "Falling Down").

  • but my violin for this is too small for even a tardigrade to hold.

  • and using AI to create fake driver's licenses to get accomplices hired as delivery drivers.

    And in-person voting is fraud proof? Ha ha.

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      and using AI to create fake driver's licenses to get accomplices hired as delivery drivers.

      And in-person voting is fraud proof? Ha ha.

      Nothing is absolutely fraud proof. But using a fake driver's license to do fraudulent in-person voting is a lot harder than using fake documents to drive a delivery truck. First, you need to fake the driver's license of an existing registered voter, not just "this person is licensed to drive a truck". This is a lot of work-- you have to research the particular details of a specific person... and if that registered voter actually showed up to vote first, there's going to be problems. (Not to mention that in

      • You are 1,000% wrong... most shipping carriers just need people to haul sh**, and they'll just hire anyone who can drive a semi, same as the apple orchards in Michigan.

        And, if the person is here illegally, either taking jobs or illegally voting as a "false citizen", they shouldn't be here just soaking up all the aid they can just to send it back home.

        • Undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than it costs to support them. They literally steal identities (or buy them anyway) and then use them to pay taxes because anything else would be suspicious. I have known about this since I was a teenager since I have an extremely common Hispanic name and someone used my SSN for this.

          • That's what I said. "most shipping carriers just need people to haul sh**, and they'll just hire anyone who can drive a semi"
            Why would an undocumented immigrant pay taxes on what was probably cash under the table? How would they even?
            And... https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]

            • Why would an undocumented immigrant pay taxes on what was probably cash under the table?

              Cash under the table? AhhaAHHAHAhaHAHAHHAHAHAHaH

              • There is such a thing as jobs like that... I should know, I worked one at a gas station.

                And, the wonderful IRS doesn't know unless you list it... hahaha.
                Or, independent contractors (been there also... doing drywall and plumbing)... all cash under the table.

                Why wouldn't a big carrier look to hire the cheapest driver they could for a wad of cash?
                Oh... and... AhhaAHHAHAhaHAHAHHAHAHAHaH

                • Why wouldn't a big carrier look to hire the cheapest driver they could for a wad of cash?

                  Payroll is a tax deductible business expense. Cash under the table is not.

                  Paying someone in cash is fine for a one-off expense. A few hundred dollars can be accounted for as a miscellaneous expense in any business.

                  An ongoing expense of a worker (or many different workers spread over a year) costs the business in lost tax deductions. That is real money. A lot of it.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Tablizer ( 95088 )

        > that in voting precincts are local, so there are likely to be people there who know the person voting

        Most such fraud would be done in bigger precincts, not small towns, so as to blend in better.

        > so if it goes bad, you're right there to be caught.

        Somebody who ready to run can outpace Barney Fife.

        > you have to research the particular details of a specific person.

        I'm sure Putin and Xi have a copy of everyone's drivers license.

    • Tell us more about how little you know about how votes are verified, despite the information being public

      • "They" (in whatever states government) can say 'they check everyone's SSN or state ID number or whatever'... do they?
        If someone is here, and they're an illegal immigrant, how do you know? When I was in MI (at The Geek Group), we had a card printer that could print legit IDs. Anyone can get one.
        As long as your SSN or ID number that is attached to your ballot pass the 'checks', your ballot passes. They're not running a four day background check on each and every person that came through to vote. If the pr

        • The checks are done before you vote. You must be registered to vote. Come voting day, your name is just matched up to the list of registered voters.

          Between when you register and when you actually vote, validation happens. You just don't see it happen. Unless something doesn't match, and then you get notified that your voter registration is invalid and must be "cured" before your vote will be counted.

  • ....by 3 black Honda Civics, with a neon glow under the chassis?

  • CIA (Score:2)

    by DarkOx ( 621550 )

    Nice little supply chain attack.

    Hijack of shipment of servers equipped with presently very very expense silicon that nobody will consider just disposing, insert your implants, let some patsys get busted and the kit get returned to the owners.

    Bonus points make it seem like a general / widely implemented scheme by hijacking some large liquor shipments and various other goods as well. Pass out the spoils at the field office party or fence them to finance some other activities that need kept well away from ove

  • Where are these guys unloading this equipment? Asking for a friend.

  • Maybe they should use their competitorsâ(TM) AI to solve this.

    Though, given the attitudes of these AI companies, Iâ(TM)m not even going to bother trying to play the worldâ(TM)s smallest violin.

  • but in the USA, not the UK. I'm not advocating for any of this, I just want to show how disgusting it could really get given the right circumstances.

    From Wikipedia:

    The "Bloody Code" was a series of laws in England, Wales and Ireland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries which imposed the death penalty for a wide range of crimes, many of which would be considered minor by later standards.

    Nowadays, it would likely be used for "Contempt of Billionaire" or "Contempt of Corporation".

    The only sticking

  • Same tactic used to steal bourbon (Score:5, Interesting)

    by smooth wombat ( 796938 ) on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:45PM (#66394476) Journal
    In June, over $500,000 worth of bourbon was stolen out from under the nose of a warehouse in Phildelphia [usatoday.com]. The first paragraph:

    The truck looked legitimate. The paperwork appeared routine. And in the middle of a workday, about 1,800 cases of bourbon were loaded onto the truck as if it were just another shipment.

    Later in the story, the explanation for how this happened is nearly identical to these tech thefts:

    Newman said investigators believe the theft may be tied to a "complex ring" targeting high-value consumer products. The perpetrators appeared to impersonate an existing trucking company, using a company name, phone number and other details to gain trust and secure the load, he said.

    "They basically try and look like, sound like ⦠a legitimate trucking company," Newman said. "They spoof the company name, they spoof the trucking dispatcher."

    In the company's news release, it said the theft appeared to have been carried out with knowledge of "logistics operations and product movement schedules," suggesting planning and coordination.

  • AI DISCLOSURE: This comment was drafted with substantial help from AI. I use AI as a writing and editing tool. The opinions are mine. Any mistakes are mine too.

    ---

    Plus ca change...

    This sounds like a modern version of Rockford Files' "Gearjammers." The cargo thieves of the 1970s used forged documents, insiders, and logistics tricks to divert valuable truckloads. Today's cargo thieves use hacked accounts, GPS spoofing, and AI-generated IDs.

    The technology changed. The weak point stayed the same: goods in trans

  • We've got an AI resistance that needs parts?
    We've got rogue AI building secret data centers?

    of course, it's probably just criminals.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ffkom ( 3519199 )
      Well if those thieves wanted to earn fame as modern Robin Hoods they would have to rework the GPUs into proper gaming PC cards and distribute them to the (GPU-power-)poor.

  • Having a GPS array and correlating signals from the array can 100% prevent this. Bigger the vehicle, better it will work. In the worst case, you won't get GPS signal, but you want get fake GPS data. Minimum 3 gps receivers are needed. Put 1 at the front and 2 at the rare on right and left side. Correlate the signals. The spoofed signals will give different readings on each of them. The real one will give different values but will match the exact distances by which they are separated.

  • $100 million; at today's prices that's at least half a dozen large SSDs, right? Plus maybe a couple sticks of RAM ...

  • I think they're dropping the ball by not hacking into electrical and construction companies as well, and submitting work orders corresponding with redirected material deliveries. If you direct enough workers and machinery and materials to a particular address, the humans involved will assume it's more likely that they're supposed to be building a datacenter than not and start doing it. Boom, you've got all the compute that freaky little homunculus you've been talking to could ever want. Although it'll surel

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