Bank of America reportedly adds 1,000 contractors to patch Mythos-found vulnerabilities

Contractors added alongside existing staff

Bank of America reportedly recruited 1,000 additional contractors to patch vulnerabilities found by Mythos, an Anthropic model. Its CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and remained in place, alongside the bank's existing technical staff, to address the initial patching workload.

The account describes an existing 3,000-person technical staff, but provides no comparable measure of the vulnerability backlog or patching capacity before Mythos identified the flaws.

Bank of America reportedly added 1,000 contractors in Q2 to help patch vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's Mythos model; the CEO said they were still assisting at the time of the report.

Flaw counts and remediation details remain unclear

The account describes a reported institutional remediation response at a scale of 1,000 contractors after an AI system identified vulnerabilities. It does not establish the number or severity of the flaws, nor independently confirm the hiring or the reported remediation effort.