| Welcome to Cyber Saturday. Here are Fortune's must-read cybersecurity stories of the week.
September 18, 2021  The nation’s largest pharmacy failed nationwide to protect the personal data of customers who got a COVID-19 test—that could make information including names, dates of birth, gender identities, phone numbers, addresses, and emails available to everyone from hackers to ad trackers.
An OpenSea employee purchased items scheduled to appear on the company’s website before they were made available publicly. Even considering the lack of regulation for NFTs, it’s not a good look for the company.
 "Passwords are incredibly inconvenient to create, remember, and manage across all the accounts in our lives,” says Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president for security, compliance, and identity at Microsoft. "Forgetting a password can be painful too."
 Team members of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny published lists—on Google Docs and on Telegram's telegra.ph platform—of candidates that people could vote for in order to get rid of politicians who back President Vladimir Putin. Both platforms are now reportedly being blocked, and political organizations associated with Navalny are being censored online.
Harvard genetics professor George Church believes that bringing back these ancient creatures through genetic engineering could help reverse climate change by restoring the plant root systems where the mammoths graze, pulling more carbon from the atmosphere. Now, the idea is making investment rounds. A note from Fortune
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