Medical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ data


Epic, the software technology giant that makes the widely used MyChart software for accessing patients’ medical data, has paused most of its product development as the company works to protect its software and systems from cyberattacks.

Judy Faulkner, the founder and chief executive of Epic, told Modern Healthcare last month that the pause would likely last six weeks while work continues on “safeguarding” the company’s products, after a deployment of Anthropic’s frontier cybersecurity model Mythos unearthed security flaws that could allow access to patients’ data.

The company has not disclosed the nature of the bugs, but its chief security officer Stirling Martin told The New York Times that some customer configurations of MyChart could allow outsiders to access patient records without recording any intrusion in the software’s logs.

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