Stolen airline miles: A thief on the flight | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/01/stolen-airline-miles?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/a_thief_on_the_flight
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THIEVES have used stolen usernames and passwords to book awards flights using American Airlines and United Airlines customers’ miles, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The airlines’ own systems don’t appear to have been compromised; instead, the thieves nabbed login information from elsewhere on the web and took advantage of the fact that many people use the same credentials across multiple sites.
