If you’ve shopped at Target this holiday season, then you may have been a target for credit card thieves. CBS is reporting payment data was stolen from some 40 million Target customers starting on Black Friday, and is believed to have continued until December 15. Investigators believe customers’ credit card data was obtained via software installed on card swipe machines in nearly all Target outlets in the U.S. The Secret Service is among the agencies investigating the breach.
Did you shop at Target between these times and was your account information compromised? If so, check out this list of steps to take from CBS News.