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Freight now gets stolen with a keyboard. Attackers hijack broker and carrier identities, reroute loads, and divert payments, and cyber-enabled cargo theft is climbing fast. Your cyber coverage has to be built for how criminals actually hit transportation.
The exposure
Transportation runs on trust and fast-moving paperwork. Attackers exploit both, impersonating brokers and carriers to steal freight and payments.
Criminals hijack carrier or broker identities, flood load boards with fake listings, and double-broker real loads to unsuspecting drivers.
Spoofed emails alter banking on freight payments and settlements. The money is gone before the discrepancy surfaces.
Your dispatch, ELD, and tracking systems are attack surface. Compromise them and operations, and safety data, are exposed.
Dispatch and TMS locked means trucks sit and loads miss windows. Downtime is direct revenue loss.
Altered bills of lading and delivery details reroute cargo and shift liability onto you.
Does your current policy actually cover this, at a limit that matters? Let's find out →
A composite Canadian case
Composite cases drawn from Canadian SME claims patterns. Each had insurance. Each found the gap too late.
Attackers used the broker's hijacked identity to re-book real loads to other carriers and pocket the payments. The broker faced claims from shippers and carriers alike.
A settlement was paid to a spoofed bank account after a convincing email chain. The cyber policy's social-engineering cap was a fraction of the loss.
Ransomware locked the TMS at month-end. Loads missed windows and customers looked elsewhere.
Built around your real exposure
No filler. We build the cyber around your real exposure, freight fraud, payment diversion, and the systems your fleet runs on, then take it to specialist underwriters who understand transportation risk.
Ransomware, business interruption, and breach response when your dispatch or TMS goes down.
Funds-transfer fraud, impersonation, and the payment diversion that hits carriers and brokers.
Data exposure and the claims that follow when a breach reaches your partners.
No pressure, no obligation
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