Highway robbers are targeting trucks carrying data center components.
NBC News reports that accelerated data center construction across the country is creating new opportunities for heists that involve phishing, corporate identity theft, and car-ramming.
TL;DR
- Highway robbers are targeting trucks carrying data center components.
- Accelerated data center construction is creating new opportunities for heists.
- Heist methods include phishing, corporate identity theft, and car-ramming.
- Truckloads of servers, fiber-optic cables, memory chips, copper wires, and bitcoin mining machines are prime targets.
- Organized criminal groups are behind these lucrative heists.