Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:31 AM EDT · New York
Federal Agent Charged Over $1 Million in Seized Crypto as Physical Bitcoin Robbery Cases Multiply
Three Missouri men pleaded not guilty to a home-invasion plot targeting bitcoin, and Interpol reports that artificial intelligence now features in most cybercrime reported across Africa.
Patrick Steven Yaroch, a supervisory agent in the counterintelligence division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is accused of taking close to $1 million in cryptocurrency connected to an investigation involving what court filin…
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Crypto Theft Moves to the Human Layer
As contract audits and hardware improve, theft keeps shifting toward insiders, coercion and artificial-intelligence-assisted social engineering, making custody a personnel and physical-security problem rather than a purely cryptographic one.
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