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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/e...

This article explains the scope of the theft better. And there's a link to a target website set up to answer most questions

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.

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.

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

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...

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.