Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, July 1st.

Today on Forbes, hackers are now coming for your airline miles and hotel points.

Most people don't check their hotel or airline points accounts very often.

That makes them a fat target for thieves.

Security experts say there's been a surge in hacking of hotel and airline loyalty accounts

over the past year.

Driven by two factors.

Better protections against credit card fraud means criminals are looking for easier targets,

and cybercrime rings have been selling tools to carry out attacks,

enabling people without coding skills to break into accounts.

Christopher Staub, co-founder of the Loyalty Security Alliance, a travel industry group,

said that the shift from credit card fraud to loyalty account takeovers has caught airlines, quote,footed he said quote they don't have the

tools the processes the people that understand this he added that airlines held

initial meetings this past week of a new working group to coordinate a response.

Nick Laming, a Singapore-based loyalty program consultant to Airlines and retailers,

said that with billions of dollars and points flowing

in and out of the mileage programs every year, quote, they're essentially like bank accounts.

He added, however, that loyalty programs, quote,

aren't compelled to protect these accounts like a bank.

Loyalty accounts have been hacked in lower volumes for years

through techniques like fishing and malware that steals passwords.

But now, cyber criminals are taking databases of log-in credentials exposed in website breaches

...