How Scammers Steal and Trade Your Airline Miles

The theft of millions of airline miles from accounts at two big U.S. airlines provides proof, if it were needed, that you should never use the same password on more than one valuable online account.

As many as 10,000 accounts at American and United Airlines were accessed by crooks, but not by directly hacking them.

They apparently got the usernames and passwords by hacking third party servers not connected with the airlines.

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