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Last month, Colorado Rockies third baseman,
Chris Bryant awaited the imminent delivery of a
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$300,000 Lamborghini hurricane to his home in
Las Vegas.
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But it never came.
Bryant, who was having the vehicle transported
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for the offseason from Denver, where he plays
ball, enlisted a transport company to do the
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job.
But what happens next sounds almost too strange
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to be true.
The transport company was said to have fallen
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victim to a business email compromise, a scheme
in which hackers were able to gain access to
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the company’s system and quietly arrange the
rerouting of the vehicle to an entirely new
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destination.
In fact, investigators say the method was so so.
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Indicated that suspects have been able to
arrange unauthorized transport of many vehicles
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nationwide.
Bryant’s Lambo was eventually traced using
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license plate recognition cameras.
The trail led them to a destination in Las
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Vegas that was most certainly not the
ballplayer’s residence.
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A week later, the authorities were able to
recover the vehicle along with some suspects in
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the caper, and the suspects weren’t exactly
empty handed.
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Car scoops described the fruits of the
investigation as a gold mine,
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adding that new information allowed them to
uncover.
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More stolen vehicles, including a Rolls-Royce,
as well as key fobs,
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fake registration documents, and technology and
tools used to switch VINs.
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It sounds like this logistics company was
breached by a good old fashioned email hack,
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and while Bryant’s vehicle was returned within
just 5 days,
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it’s considered an outcome that’s nothing short
of a miracle.
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One detective remarked on the nature of the
case, which required multiple agencies across
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state lines as elaborate, adding, you see this
stuff in movies.
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I’m Anna Wells, and this is manufacturing now.