Last month, Colorado Rockies third baseman Kris Bryant awaited the imminent delivery of a $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan to his home in Las Vegas … but it never came.
Bryant, who was having the vehicle transported for the offseason from Denver, where he plays ball, enlisted a transport company to do the job. But what happens next sounds almost too strange to be true.
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The transport company was said to have fallen victim to a “business email compromise” – a scheme in which hackers were able to gain access to the company’s system and quietly arrange the rerouting of the vehicle to another destination entirely.
In fact, investigators say the method was so sophisticated that suspects have been able to arrange unauthorized transport of …