Hackers Are Making a Fortune Stealing from Kids in ‘Roblox’

<p><em>Roblox </em>is one of the most popular and profitable video games ever created. Unless you’ve got kids, there’s a decent chance you’ve probably never heard of it. What makes it so engaging is that it’s a place where players develop and sell their own games and items. There is an internal economy and culture built around it. <em>Roblox is</em>, dare I say,&nbsp; a metaverse all its own.</p><br><p>Lurking at the edges of that metaverse is a group of people called Beamers. With so many items floating around the <em>Roblox</em> economy worth so much cash and so many of them owned by children. That’s a target an unscrupulous hacker can hardly pass up.</p><br><p>This week on Cyber, Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox walks us through the underground world of <em>Roblox. </em>It’s the subject of his <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gd4a/roblox-beaming-hackers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">newest piece</a>, “How Roblox ‘Beamers’ Get Rich Stealing from Children.”</p><br><p><strong>We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live on Wednesdays at 4pm EST.</strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Follow us</strong></a><strong> there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.</strong></p><p><strong>Subscribe to</strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</strong></a><strong> or wherever you listen to your podcasts.</strong></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>