Cyberattack Hits Hunt, Ryder & Echo, Texas Trucker Indicted, and USPS Cuts Losses | The Morning Minute
11/12/2026
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In this episode, we kick things off by examining a massive cybersecurity crisis affecting some of the logistics industry's biggest players. A relatively new criminal gang called Whitearmor has launched targeted attacks since late October, and J.B. Hunt, Ryder System, and Echo Global Logistics have all been hit with multimillion-dollar ransom demands. The gang claims to hold vast amounts of employee records, carrier contacts, and invoices, and all three companies now face federal lawsuits from employees alleging they failed to protect personal information.
Meanwhile, federal authorities are cracking down hard on labor violations along the southern border. A Laredo-based trucking company owner has been indicted on federal charges after prosecutors allege his firm employed fifty-seven unauthorized foreign drivers on B-1 visas to haul domestic freight across the United States. By allegedly paying these drivers between twenty-five and fifty cents per mile compared to the seventy cents paid to authorized drivers, the company reportedly saved nearly three hundred thousand dollars in labor costs while violating federal immigration law.
Finally, we explore the ongoing financial struggles at the nation's mail carrier as the U.S. Postal Service reduced its annual operating loss by twelve point seven percent to six point five billion dollars in fiscal year twenty twenty-six. Despite growth in Ground Advantage parcel services and marketing mail, Postmaster General David Steiner and CFO Luke Grossman are calling on Congress and regulators for urgent reforms, warning that the Postal Service could face insolvency by twenty thirty-one when its retiree health benefit fund is exhausted.
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