Five arrested, $1 million in stolen goods recovered in Dallas theft ring bust
Dallas police discovered a stolen trailer being towed into a repair shop, which led them to uncover a massive cache of stolen goods. Inside, officers found roughly $1 million worth of items connected to at least ten cargo-theft cases dating back several years. Five people, including the shop owner and manager, were arrested and charged with felony theft. Investigators say the shop was being used as a base for a long-running cargo-theft operation across the region.
Suspects arrested in multi-county organized retail theft investigation
Authorities arrested several individuals tied to a retail theft ring operating across multiple counties. Investigators say the group stole thousands in merchandise and moved goods across jurisdictions to avoid detection. The case shows how coordinated these groups have become and how widespread the problem is. Police and retailers are now working together to track stolen merchandise and dismantle resale networks.
DoorDash Says Social Engineering Scam Led to Data Breach
DoorDash reported that a social-engineering scam targeting an employee allowed unauthorized access to user information. The data included names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses for customers, workers, and merchants. No financial or highly sensitive personal information was compromised. DoorDash has since added new security measures and employee training to prevent similar attacks.
The Silent Hazard: Confronting the Rising Threat of Violence Against Women at Work
The article highlights the growing threat of workplace violence against women and the lack of attention it receives. It emphasizes that women face unique risks, including harassment, intimidation, stalking, and threats that can follow them into the workplace. The piece calls for stronger prevention measures, clearer reporting systems, and leadership accountability. It frames the issue as both a human-safety priority and a significant organizational risk.
Official 2026 Cybersecurity Market Report: Predictions And Statistics
The 2026 outlook predicts global cybersecurity spending will surge, far surpassing earlier industry estimates. Growth is being driven by expanding digital systems, new attack surfaces, and the rise of AI-enabled threats. The report notes that cyber risk is increasingly influencing decisions beyond the IT department, including in cloud, compliance, and operational units. It concludes that cybersecurity has become a top-level strategic priority for companies worldwide.
Preventing Dishonesty: New Sides to an Old Geometry Lesson
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A few weeks back, I ran into the store to pick up a few things and hopped in the self-checkout line behind someone who had that tired, overwhelmed expression we’ve all had at the end of a long day. Bags everywhere. Kids restless. A cart loaded with the kind of chaos you only understand if you’ve ever shopped at 6pm on a weekday. One of her items wouldn’t scan, so the employee stepped in to help. Not with attitude. Not with impatience. Just a warm, friendly voice that offered, “Let me help you with that, hun!”
The whole thing took maybe ten seconds, but you could see her relax almost immediately. She smiled. She exhaled. She went from frazzled to grounded. After the employee left, she spotted a “forgotten” can of baby formula under one of her bags. She froze for a moment, side-eyed the attendant podium, and then began a new transaction to pay for it.
I caught the whole thing. LP eyes never turn off. She had opportunity. She had a plausible rationalization. With the stress she was under, need wasn’t off the table either. But that one small, sincere interaction fractured the theft triangle in an unexpected way.
Honesty happened because someone made her feel seen, not suspected.
That moment became the spark for this follow-up to Retail’s Black Mirror. In that article, I talked about how retail has become a reflection of itself, shaped by frictionless systems and automated expectations that quietly change how we behave. If you missed it, here’s the link: Retail’s Black Mirror
This sequel takes that reflection even further. If retail wants to solve shrink in a lasting way, there needs to be a shift away from spotting dishonest behavior and toward designing environments where fewer people feel pushed, tempted, or justified to cross the line in the first place.
The One-sided Triangle
Ask any LP/AP leader about the Theft Triangle and they can draw it from memory. Three sides. Three conditions that must exist for someone to steal.
Opportunity. Rationalization. Need (Financial).
The triangle is simple and uncomfortable because it exposes how theft isn’t random. It’s engineered by circumstances. It’s shaped by environment. And it’s influenced by how people feel.
Retail has spent decades attacking the Opportunity side. More cameras. More alarms. More devices. More hardening. We turned the “Opportunity” side of the triangle into the entire strategy. But, if all we do is reduce “opportunity,” we never solve the root cause. We only chase symptoms. The other two sides matter just as much.
Rationalization and justification grow when people feel ignored, disconnected, disrespected, or beaten down by life or work. The “need” expands when someone’s life falls apart or when their stress outweighs their judgment.
An employee doesn’t walk into work as a criminal. The triangle forms around them.
Flipping the Triangle
If the triangle explains why people steal, then retail needs to start designing environments that soften or remove the conditions that complete it.
We can still protect opportunity. But we must also influence the human factors that shape rationalization and need. This isn’t soft. This is strategic.
When people feel welcomed and acknowledged, their ability to rationalize theft weakens.
When employees feel supported, included, and trusted, their internal “need” shifts from survival behavior to belonging. When stores feel organized, engaged, and connected, opportunistic theft drops without a single confrontation.
Honesty becomes the default when the triangle loses its edges.
WATCH: Shoplifters caught on camera by Manlius Police Retail Crime Task Force
With the holiday season in full swing, the Manlius Police are ready to bust more thieves as their Retail Crime Task Force enters its second season.
To combat the rising tide of retail theft, police have increased their presence in stores through their Retail Crime Task Force. They deploy plainclothes officers to work alongside loss prevention teams in places like Towne Center, home to Target and Tops, among other popular retail stores.
The initiative aims to deter shoplifters, especially as the holiday season approaches. Some of the arrests are easier than others, with some thieves cooperating and even admitting their wrongdoing, while others try to make a run for it.
San Joaquin County District Attorney Arraigns Four in Million-Dollar Jewelry Heist Cases
Four defendants were involved in the theft of $1.5M in merchandise from Alba Jewelry in Sacramento California.
Due to the investigative efforts, the Sacramento County Sheriff was able to track all four defendants to the Lodi Pawn and Jewelry where two of the defendants were arrested inside the store.
The third was arrested fleeing the scene, and the fourth defendant was monitoring the operation from an RV at the Flag City RV Resort.
The Sheriff's Office recovered multiple burglar tools including a signal jammer and property from the Sacramento theft.
Drugs, guns, stolen gift cards found in Virginia shoplifters' getaway car
What began as a shoplifting investigation in Arlington took a far more serious turn when officers found a large amount of drugs in a getaway car.
Police were investigating a retail theft in the area of Army Navy Drive. The thieves got away in a vehicle, but didn't get far until being stopped on Joyce Street, the Arlington County Police Department said.
The car they were in had an altered license plate. Before it was going to be towed to an impound lot, officers searched the car and found a bunch of drugs, including fentanyl and cocaine.
Guns, ammunition and stolen merchandise like gift cards were also found.
How to Streamline Management With Advanced Convenience Store Security
The United States convenience store industry has seen rapid expansion and transformation in recent years. Market data shows that convenience stores were the fastest-growing retail channel in the US from 2023 to 2024, with 1.5% year-over-year growth. Across the nation, over 150,000 convenience stores are in operation. However, as growth accelerates, businesses find themselves struggling to effectively scale their operations with the addition of new locations, employees, and systems.
For these multi-location convenience store businesses, bottlenecks arise as their existing security infrastructure creates disconnected stores and isolated management, which inhibit productivity and impact business performance. To solve this, organizations can turn to centralized cloud video security to unify locations, users, and devices, improving operations and security in a single pane of glass. In this article, we explore the challenges facing convenience stores and highlight how an open platform cloud video surveillance solution can help organizations overcome these obstacles, unify operations, and prepare for scalable, flexible growth.
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NYC’s Counterfeit Market Reportedly Roars Back To Life Just Weeks After Mass ICE Arrests
Scammers were back to business as usual less than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cracked down on illegal immigrants allegedly selling luxury knockoffs on New York’s infamous Canal Street, according to a Sunday report.
Despite the threat of deportation, dozens of these scammers have returned to Canal Street to allegedly continue selling fake designer bags, electronics and more in preparation for the holidays, according to the New York Post.
New report warns retailers are unprepared for AI-powered attacks
Retailers are entering the peak shopping season amid warnings that AI-driven cyber threats will accelerate. LevelBlue’s latest Spotlight Report says nearly half of retail executives are already seeing significantly higher attack volumes, while one-third have suffered a breach in the past year.
The sector is under pressure to roll out AI-driven personalization and new digital channels, yet only a quarter feel ready to defend against AI attacks. Readiness gaps also cover deepfakes and synthetic identity fraud, even though most expect these threats to arrive soon.
The INFORM Consumers Act: A Must-Know for Online Marketplaces
While the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (INFORM Act) went into effect on June 27, 2023, very few online marketplaces have focused on this law since then.
However, the INFORM Act is now receiving increased attention from Congress and the Federal Trade Commission.
Online marketplaces that operate platforms for third-party sellers may have certain compliance obligations to tackle before a regulator (or Congress) comes calling.
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Cybercrime groups team with organized crime in massive cargo theft campaigns
Financially motivated cyber gangs are working with organized crime to steal massive amounts of cargo through the abuse of remote monitoring tools, according to a recent report from Proofpoint.
The cyber thieves, dating back to January, have used remote monitoring and management tools such as ScreenConnect or SimpleHelp to gain access to targeted trucking carriers or freight brokers, conduct reconnaissance activity and then use harvesting tools to steal credentials.
How Retailers Can Keep Holiday Chaos from Turning into Costly Loss
The holidays look beautiful from a distance. Twinkling lights, shiny floors, the smell of cinnamon garland and kids laughing… and shopping carts filled to the brim.
But step behind the register, and the picture changes. The noise is louder here. The stress sharper. The smiles tighter. Somewhere between the twinkle and the tension, a shopping cart slips through the door without stopping.
That’s pushout theft.
It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t run. It just moves quietly, steadily, and then it’s gone.
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