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Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript

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Medvi is a telehealth pharmacy that has received significant media attention recently. While browsing their site with DevTools open, I noticed that their public JavaScript bundle contains a hardcoded list of 999 patient email addresses — along with each patient's enrollment date, active status, and whether a care manager has been assigned. This data is downloaded by every visitor's browser before any login occurs.

The list isn't a forgotten fixture. It's actively used: the app imports it, filters for active patients, and checks whether the logged-in user's email appears in the list to decide which UI features to display. Client-side feature flagging with real patient data baked into the bundle.

The same bundle also exposes a list of Season Health (Medvi's parent company) employee emails used to bypass checkout flows, and a separate list of Open Loop Health (their clinical provider) staff emails used to bypass intake form logic — both labeled as such in the source.

This is another great demonstration that relying only on large language models for product development is premature.

Re: Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript

#5

Looks like you used a LLM to write your post, or am I wrong?

Totally agree Check the Wikipedia page "Signs of AI writing", found 2 of them in this post (overuse of em dash and negative parallelism) Also quickly checked Medvi, their JavaScript looks good...

Re: Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript

#8

Looks like you used a LLM to write your post, or am I wrong?

Totally agree Check the Wikipedia page "Signs of AI writing", found 2 of them in this post (overuse of em dash and negative parallelism) Also quickly checked Medvi, their JavaScript looks good...

Would you like me to show you specific JavaScript files right here?

Re: Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript

#9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree Check the Wikipedia page "Signs of AI writing", found 2 of them in this post (overuse of em dash and negative parallelism) Also quickly checked Medvi, their JavaScript looks good...

Would you like me to show you specific JavaScript files right here?

Yes please, I only checked the ones from homepage, I probably missed some if the other pages includes other scripts

Re: Tell HN: Medvi (telehealth) hardcodes 999 patient emails in public JavaScript

#10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you like me to show you specific JavaScript files right here?

Yes please, I only checked the ones from homepage, I probably missed some if the other pages includes other scripts

Just open app.medvi.org and search in DevTools gmail/yahoo/icloud and you will see js bundle with emails.

or seasonhealth/openloophealth to find another js bundle with staff emails.

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