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California cargo thieves ram security escorts to hijack AI hardware shipments worth millions
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Cargo thieves in California disabled two private security escort vehicles using PIT maneuvers and rear-ending tactics, then made off with millions of dollars in AI data center hardware, with investigators believing the truck drivers were complicit.
Conventional security escorts are insufficient for protecting high-value AI hardware shipments, especially when drivers may be complicit and motor carrier registrations can be fraudulently transferred. Export controls have pushed black market prices for restricted AI hardware in China above U.S. retail, making stolen AI cargo uniquely valuable and incentivizing increasingly aggressive theft tactics.
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Cargo thieves used PIT maneuvers and rear-ending to disable security escort vehicles guarding AI hardware shipments traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California.
Investigators believe truck drivers were complicit, with both thefts involving motor carrier numbers that had recently changed hands as a fraud technique to book freight under legitimate registrations.
U.S. export controls have pushed black market prices for restricted AI hardware in China above U.S. retail, with Nvidia's DGX B300 server selling for over $1.1 million versus roughly $550,000 domestically.
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