Target customers began reporting problems accessing the retailer's website and mobile app Friday morning, according to outage-tracking service Downdetector, in what appeared to be a developing disruption affecting the company's digital shopping platforms.

Downdetector said user reports indicating problems with Target began climbing at 10:03 a.m. Eastern time. The tracking service posted about the rising number of reports on its official account on the social platform X, asking affected users to describe how the outage was impacting them and tagging the post with the hashtag "TargetDown."

As of Friday morning, Target had not issued a detailed public statement addressing the scope, cause or expected resolution timeline for the reported disruption. Separate outage-monitoring services showed a mixed picture of the retailer's status around the same period. One tracker, WebsiteDown, reported that its automated probe found Target's website reachable and responding normally, while noting that any issues appeared to have already cleared by the time of its check. Another service, Outage.now, similarly indicated it had not detected any outages affecting Target over the preceding 24 hours as of Friday, though it remained unclear whether that data reflected conditions before or after the wave of reports Downdetector flagged at 10:03 a.m.

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