Now, hackers have found a way to blackmail gamers

Hackers have hauled in millions over the years, mostly in bitcoins, with a blackmail scheme called ransomware, experts say.

You visit a hacked website or download an evil file, and it encrypts files on your computer and won't give them back until you pay money to designated account.

Those who visit porn sites have been victims of this type of thing for years. Even police stations have been forced to pay up.

Now two security researchers have found a new type of ransomware that slips in through Flash files or through an old hole in Internet Explorer and specifically targets video games, writes security researcher Vadim Kotov from Bromium Labs.

Want your game back? Want all your high scores and other game-related data back? Pay up .... http://uk.businessinsider.com