Children as young as seven are being referred to Britain’s national cybercrime intervention programme, with the average age being just 15.
The NCA is seeing a year-on-year increase in referrals, mostly gamers aged 10 to 16, at the same time as insurance payouts to hacked UK businesses have rocketed 230%.
Two notorious crypto hackers, jailed for stealing $21m in crypto between them, told Sky News that hacking is even more mainstream now for kids.
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