<p>I got the email today and did shop at target. Two days ago I went on their website re the free monitoring and the info is the same. FYI.</p>
<p>I got the email today, as well. I do think it 's legit, as it goes to the target website. Hard to imagine that’s faked, too.</p>
<p>I did question how they got my email address, as I would not have given it to the store at any time. but my credit card knows it. This worried me, as according to the email, it’s not my credit, but just my “other” info, that was at risk–but how did Target get the email addrsss? </p>
<p>So I called; talked to a very friendly young man who said a lot of people had called with that question, and he did not know the answer. He speculated thast they may have gotten the address FROM the cc company in order to contact me.</p>
<p>We had a lovely conversation about how wouldn’t it be useful for Target to figure out what FAQ were coming up in the phone calls so their operators could answer them, but they don’t seem to be attempting to do that.</p>
<p>One of my visa cards got hit. </p>
<p>The bank called me. The charges originated in Hong Kong. </p>
<p>Cancelled Target red card. They said this one not affected. Not taking any chances. Watching everything carefully, now.</p>
<p>SL—thanks for letting us know. The temptation is to assume nothing will come of it.</p>
<p>You can navigate to the site in the email via <a href=“https://corporate.target.com/[/url]”>Target Corporate;
<p>I got a free year of monitoring when Adobe had some sort of data breach. Apparently I had bought a subscription at some point in time so my info was at risk. I had never given much thought to the credit monitoring companies before that and not much since. UNTIL I bought a new car in November and soon received an email stating </p>
<p>“This Alert indicates that new information such as a new inquiry, public record, collections notice, etc, has been posted to your Experian credit report. Knowing about changes to your credit report is the first step in identifying fraud…”</p>
<p>The company was ProtectMyID.</p>
<p>I think our Target card is under my husbands social, so now we will both have coverage for a little while.</p>
<p>^ I just got an email form Target offering me that. I didn’t shop there during the breach but my email, etc “may have been compromised”. I’ll look into the service and see what it offers.</p>
<p>I got the email although it has been a while since I shopped on line. I went to the Target web page instead of using the email link. Don’t like email links. If you go to the bottom and click on corporate responsibility there are links there to register.</p>
<p>When I mouseover a link in an email, I can see where it goes. Very easy to see if it’s on target.com or some spam/scam site like targett.com or target.spammer.com or something.</p>
<p>My sister just got an email that said her name, email, address, etc <em>may</em> have been taken.</p>
<p>I got the same e-mail. I did not shop at Target during the breach period, although I did shop there earlier in 2013. But I don’t know how they could have obtained my e-mail address from those transactions.</p>
<p>I assume I must have ordered something online from Target at some time – probably a birthday or holiday gift for someone who lives far away. They could have gotten my e-mail that way.</p>
<p>I thought the e-mail was a phishing scam, but my computer-savvy husband says no. He did recommend that I type the URL into my browser, though, rather than clicking on it.</p>
<p>Hmm. I didn’t get it and I shop at Target a lot. Both online and in-store. Weird.</p>
<p>I shop at Target AT LEAST once a week. No email from them, but then again they have no record of my email…</p>
<p>Also, no email. And yeah, I’m a regular. lol.</p>
<p>^^^ Same here. I shopped at Target during the affected period but didn’t receive the email. It looks like the only ones here who DID get the email did NOT shop at Target during that period. Even if Target got their email address some other way, why did the Target shoppers NOT get the email? Very strange!</p>
<p>I shopped at Target during that time period and got the email.</p>
<p>My husband shopped there during the time period, and we got the email today…it went to the email address associated with the Amex card. Signed up for the service and looked and did not see any unusual activity. BUT…one of his staid, reliable colleagues had a $5,000 fraudulent charge from Hong Kong show up on his card yesterday, which is why we went ahead and signed up for the credit monitoring service.</p>
<p>I did shop with my cc during the time period and did receive the email…(maybe from online purchases).Before I used the link I verified that it was in fact what Target was offering.
[Public</a> Investigator - Target issues details for signing up for free credit monitoring](<a href=“http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/pi/target-issues-details-for-signing-up-for-free-credit-monitoring-b99183070z1-239968601.html]Public”>Target issues details for signing up for free credit monitoring)</p>
<p>here’s the link, looks like anyone can use it, you’ll get an activation code after signing up
<a href=“https://creditmonitoring.target.com/[/url]”>https://creditmonitoring.target.com/</a></p>
<p>I also got the email. Same scenerio: only shopped there twice, about 5-7 years ago. Never gave them my email address or phone number. I don’t normally get emails from them. Don’t get sale ads.</p>
<p>So what’s the deal? It seems that folks like me, the non-shoppers, have gotten this suspicious email. Those who did/do shop at Target got nothing. The email said to never open suspicious emails and whoops, that’s just what I did. The email was a bunch of random numbers and letters: TargetNews <a href="mailto:1838a3ce0layfovcia3lqanaaaaaab27egs7s7ikjmiyaaaaa@target.bfi0.com">1838a3ce0layfovcia3lqanaaaaaab27egs7s7ikjmiyaaaaa@target.bfi0.com</a> Except looking at it just now, I see “Olay” in there. I wonder if that was the cookie they picked up from my computer.</p>
<p>FWIW, I heard most of these breaches are from Russia or China.</p>
<p>Major retailers were sent information today about exactly how the hack was done and how they can prevent it from happening to them. While some will pay attention and secure things a little more,the reality is, the hackers are probably already working on a new way.</p>