“We thought our new 'Hack-A-Cat' game was a unique opportunity to inspire interest in cybersecurity for a younger audience using Roblox,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of KnowBe4.

Popular online game Roblox has suffered a security breach after a hacker bribed a company employee to gain access to the company's back end customer support panel.

Roblox hack: Worker tricked into giving access to user data in popular children's game Roblox is a free game, offering creative space for people to make their own minigames within it ...

Roblox ultimately discovered that someone had hacked a single server of the game, allowing them to circumvent the rules and upload code that clearly violated the company's rules.

The makers of the online children's game say a hacker uploaded malicious code to one of its servers.