Oh absolutely it would. Thieves! It's disgusting. And my debit card wasn't even one affected by Target hacking. I hadn't shopped there in almost a year when that hit.

They may have close your account if “long-time’ is years. it’s been years since I have been in the store. It’s a good thing I didn’t know about the car shaped like a cupcake in the Christmas catalog a few years ago.
I knew they had their own card but I didn’t know they took American Express. They also take checks, which is why I said the hacking would involve direct banking info.

Thanks Hiraghm.

Maybe they should quit reading our e-mails and go after hackers like this.

Sorry that may have happened. I really hope it has not. :-(

Yes. It sucks. Not feeling like utilizing the vocabulary at my disposal at the moment, lol!

Yes, if there are hackers that can do this, who do we have that can trace them? It's not like there aren't people capable.

What a pain. My folks are in their 70's and really don't need to be dealing with this. I hope they find the losers. I do not understand why it is so hard to trace this stuff.

Everyone knows about this. Just put "Target data breach" into your browser. The numbers are now over 110 million. And you can find out why Target waited four days to announce it. Back in 2007, it was TJMaxx at 90 million.

Probably. I went in to pay on my daughter’s account during the time of the cyber attack. They told me that the computer doesn’t access the account directly for cash payments, but...another employee said that the main frame was hacked, which would mean anybody and everybody was hacked.

I don’t know if I was affected. I’m going to pay off the account and close it. I never open an online account to pay bills with any of my cards, so nobody has access to my pin numbers, passwords, or e-mail. I still love the USPS. :P

Neiman Marcus was hit in December too, but they are keeping it low-keyed. Neiman Marcus doesn’t take outside credit cards, so hackers would have hacked direct banking information.

Actually, they accept their own card and American Express. Or cash. I know. I have a NM card. Haven't used it in a loooong time though.

What sort of idiot would say we will unlock that after being told that it isn't used in the first place, and that it appeared to have had attempted hacks into the account?! Asshats.
My debit card was hacked the week before thanksgiving. What a chore to get my card replaced! I got a call alerting me to possible illegal activity in my account. There were attempted charges ranging from plane tickets to Paris, via Orbitz, to $160.00 in gift cards to Pizza Hut originating in Tennessee. Overall, 22 transactions were blocked/reversed.

Excellent point.

I got an email from my bank saying my card was affected and they lowered my ATM limit to $200 dollars a day and no purchases over $500. I had to get a new debit card to get over that. It is a total pain. I worked for Target at a corporate level years back, they are not such a bad company. No security system is 100% fail safe. The real shame is the people who engineered the fraud. They could be using those skills for something constructive instead of selling credit card info overseas on the black market.

Best of luck on that one. Cancelling cards and cleaning up the mess can be such a hassle.

it was just my luck to have come out of the gulch and into the US right in that timeframe and go to Target. Nothing so far for me- and haven't heard anything from the bank yet either. hmm

(in the voice of Astro [Jetsons]) Ruh Roh!
Glad I haven't shopped there in years...

When my sister was here over thanksgiving she and my Mom went to Target (neither of them frequent Target, but they were looking for something for the baby)...my sister ended up buying a walker. She called me two days after the news broke and had me dig out the receipt she left here to see which account she used...soon after she was contacted by that company that her info had been compromised. I was in Target (I never shop there), the same day the news broke but I didn't hear about it until after I left the store..(right after actually)...no wonder the store wasn't busy, right before Christmas. It really is unbelievable, but I think we'll be seeing a lot more of this soon. Cashless purchasing is finally rearing it's ugly head.

Wow! So true. I don't like this cashless society; never did. The government loves it though and would no doubt like to eliminate cash altogether. It is so much easier to tax transactions with a paper trail... Big government wants to know if you made twenty five dollars at your yard sale...

I have been talking to customers who were. I had no idea it was this bad. Everyone I have talked to so far just had to cancel their credit card. It only seemed a matter of time. With all this info in cyber space someone was bound to figure out how to get it.

I haven't been, but here's a link to a report that Neiman Marcus was also hacked. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/busi...

Great article. Thank you.

Wow