First, the good news: Old-fashioned cargo theft is down. Within the past three years, incidents have fallen from 1,317 in 2011 to 1,090 in 2013, according to CargoNet, a cargo crime tracking subsidiary of Verisk Crime Analytics.
And now the bad news: Cyber crime, as it relates to cargo, is up.
Cyber crime is less physically dangerous than stealing a tractor-trailer, said Keith Lewis, vice president of operations at CargoNet. And cyber thieves are harder to catch and much less likely to be arrested.
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