According to the report from antivirus company AVG detailed evidence of programmes written to “steal” virtual currency.
In one case, researchers were able to reverse-engineer “amateur” code to reveal data about the identity of one child in Canada.
The company said children must be educated on coding “rights and wrongs”.
“As more schools are educating people for programming in this early stage, before they are adults and understand the impact of what they’re doing, this will continue to grow.” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at AVG.
The researchers found that many instances hack game of malware targeting games popular with children shared the same characteristics.
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