Target outage on April 29 — 24 minutes disruption
Apr 29, 03:08 AM → Apr 29, 03:33 AM · 24 minutes · high
On April 29, 2026, we experienced a service outage affecting Target that lasted for 24 minutes. The incident began at 03:08 UTC and was resolved by 03:33 UTC. During this time, user reports indicated issues categorizing primarily as security related.
Impact
Users reported a total of three incidents during the outage, all classified as security issues. No specific regions were noted as being more affected than others, indicating a broad but unidentified impact. While reports peaked at three in a 15-minute period, the issue led to concern regarding security features of the service. All reported issues were addressed promptly.
Top reported issues
- Security issue3
Incident timeline
- Apr 29, 03:08 AM
PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (high severity)
- Apr 29, 03:15 AM
Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.3)
- Apr 29, 03:33 AM
Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved
Official updates
- Apr 29, 03:33 AM
Security issue clustered from 1 source across 3 signals. Suppressed 2 redundant alerts.