FBI Agent Arrested After Allegedly Looting Up to $1,000,000 in Crypto From ‘Adversarial’ Wallets

An FBI counterintelligence agent was arrested on Friday after allegedly looting “adversarial cryptocurrency accounts” and accumulating around $1 million worth of digital assets.

An affidavit filed by a different FBI agent on Saturday alleges that Patrick Yaroch, a supervisory special agent who works at the Bureau’s headquarters in Washington DC, self-reported last week in a fit of shame, saying what he did was “eating him up inside” and that he wanted to “get it off his chest.”

Yaroch worked at the FBI Boston Division from 2017-2025 on a national security investigative squad focused on an unnamed adversarial nation-state. Starting in February 2025, he worked in the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division in DC, and as “a detailee within the US intelligence community,” per the affidavit.

While in Boston, Yaroch allegedly investigated an individual associated with the adversarial nation state.

Amid his self-reporting session last week, Yaroch allegedly said he became frustrated when he could not do more to disrupt this individual’s use of crypto, so he went into FBI systems and found the passkeys needed to transfer money from multiple adversarial wallets to himself.

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