As many as 50,000 Minecraft players have been infected by malware that could delete the contents of their hard drive after downloading infected game skins from the official Minecraft store. The malware, discovered by security firm Avast Software s.r.o., was delivered inside the PNG file that comes with skins, a way for players to change their character (picture above), and as well as reformatting hard drives can also delete backup data, remove system programs and send messages to an infected user.

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