FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto — and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country
- A former FBI counterintelligence supervisor is accused of memorizing seed phrases from bureau systems
- The agent moved roughly $1 million out of wallets tied to a foreign adversary without having to resort to any sort of hacking
- Investigators recovered ChatGPT conversations in which he asked how to invest the money and how to gain EU residency, and the chatbot's replies recited his age, wife, child, and property plans back to him
Patrick Steven Yaroch, a supervisory special agent in the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, has been arrested and charged with interstate transportation and receipt of stolen goods.
An affidavit filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, claims Yaroch took roughly a million dollars in cryptocurrency from wallets he encountered while investigating a foreign adversary and then used ChatGPT to determine what to do with it.
The theft, as described, required no technical sophistication whatsoever: Yaroch held a Top Secret...
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