Clothing retailer J. Crew is warning customers that it sustained a data breach in April of 2019. The store has disabled an unknown number of accounts and asked the affected parties to contact Customer Care to restore those accounts. The breach affected some paycard data. BleepingComputer says the incident was a credential stuffing attack, and TechCrunch wonders why it took J. Crew almost a year to disclose the breach.

Connecticut-headquartered industrial conglomerate Emcor has disclosed that it’s sustained a ransomware attack. The strain involved is Ryuk. Emcor says it’s investigating, but that operations continue and there appears to have been no data breach.

Criminals continue to use coronavirus stories as phishbait in attacks on businesses, the Wall Street Journal writes. It’s an international problem: according to Reuters even Russian President Putin is taking note, and Roskomnadzor has been blocking bogus stories on Vkontakte and Facebook.

The Super Tuesday primaries in the US went off without hacking or evidence of effective disinformation, and Bloomberg reports that NSA Director Nakasone told Congress that superior preparation on the defenders’ part made the difference.  

Los Angeles County did stumble badly with its new voting machines. Long delays induced by malfunctioning machines produced what the Los Angeles Times called an “ugly debut for the county’s new $300-million voting system.” Other election authorities who’ve adopted similar devices are reviewing their plans.

Executives from Nokia and Ericsson expressed their support this week for US laws that would push Huawei out of 5G infrastructure, the Washington Post reports.