With little expertise at keeping information private online, kids with cards are an easy target for identity theft, often putting the family finances at risk.
This will take away one way to track Apple product users and target ads accordingly, but the policy in the war over identity and privacy is one of escalation.
Hackers have been after passwords, bank account data and other personal information used for identity theft or years, but now cyber criminals appear to have a new target: airline miles.
Hackers distributed malware that caused the target computers to shut down, routing the attack through computers in other countries to conceal their identity, the investigators said.