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Roblox is one of the most popular and profitable video games ever created. Unless you\u2019ve got kids, there\u2019s a decent chance you\u2019ve probably never heard of it. What makes it so engaging is that it\u2019s a place where players develop and sell their own games and items. There is an internal economy and culture built around it. Roblox is, dare I say,  a metaverse all its own.

Lurking at the edges of that metaverse is a group of people called Beamers. With so many items floating around the Roblox economy worth so much cash and so many of them owned by children. That\u2019s a target an unscrupulous hacker can hardly pass up.

This week on Cyber, Motherboard staff writer Joseph Cox walks us through the underground world of Roblox. It\u2019s the subject of his newest piece, \u201cHow Roblox \u2018Beamers\u2019 Get Rich Stealing from Children.\u201d

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