“He West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico: ‘We Have People Stealing All over the World.’ A Digital Sleuth Named Bryan Hance Has Spent the past Four Years Obsessively Uncovering a Bicycle-Theft Pipeline of Astonishing Scale”, Christopher Solomon2024-06-12 (crime, computer security)⁠:

…As we talked, Bryan Hance pulled up security camera footage from a 2019 Portland break-in. He wanted to show me what bike owners were up against. We watched as 3 thieves gained access to a secure bike room in an apartment building and stole 5 bikes worth $10,000 in fewer than 4 minutes.

Once inside, the thieves didn’t bother with the bike locks; they simply removed the cheap bike racks directly from the walls.