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. #hackers #gaming #children #skynews SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https://podfollow.com/skynewsdaily/ To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales