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Rahim Amir

FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto — and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country

Crypto mining.
  • 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.

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