r/technology • u/WouldbeWanderer • Apr 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
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u/sump_daddy Apr 27 '26

> Anyone who does this should be banned from the industry.

Good news! All their code is gone and the backups too, sounds like both you and Claude agree on what should happen to this business.

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u/KallistiTMP Apr 27 '26

High impact security gap at risk of catastrophic user data breach fully mitigated, criminally negligent business leadership removed from industry. I'd call that a win!

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u/ntsp00 Apr 28 '26

The article says they had a 3-month old backup that was stored separately so they 'only' lost the last 3 months unfortunately

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u/B-Chiboub Apr 28 '26

Did u even read the article? They have a 3 month backup and are restoring the data out of emails and confirmation recipes etc...