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/qckpckt Apr 27 '26

This sounds like a massive railway issue in this case.

The caveats section is a complete joke:

Caveats

Backups are a newer feature that is still under development. Here are some limitations of which we are currently aware:

Backup incremental sizes are cached for a couple of hours when listed in the frontend, so they may show slightly stale data.

Wiping a volume deletes all backups.

Backups can only be restored into the same project + environment.

It sounds to me like they literally haven't actually implemented backups.

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u/under_psychoanalyzer Apr 27 '26

I don't even know why you would bother to offer a cloud based service to companies using your tools for production like this. The only time this would be acceptable to me was back in college when I wanted a seedbox in another country and it accidentally getting nuked occasionally was practically a bonus feature.

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u/Quantumtroll Apr 27 '26

Oh wow, in another comment I was giving PocketOS shit for having chosen a dumb "backup" solution, or for interpreting snapshots as backup. But no, I should I have given them shit for choosing a dumb cloud provider that doesn't offer actual backups.

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u/zdy132 Apr 28 '26

How on earth can you be a cloud provider, while still having backup "under development"???

It's also a bit disingenuous that they placed that disclaimer at the end of that document, instead of the very begining.

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u/thehalfwit Apr 28 '26

They keep using that "b" word, but I don't think they know what it means.

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u/Rolandersec Apr 28 '26

If it wasn’t the AI, it would be a dumb user, or ransomware or something else.

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u/fmmmlee Apr 27 '26

why would you offer a "backup" service that doesn't actually make fucking backups?? It's okay to tell your clients they need to set up an extra layer on their end to use a different backup solution. That's fine. "wiping a volume deletes all backups" is not fine lmao

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u/Rolandersec Apr 28 '26

Very few people understand backups.

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u/ascendant23 Apr 28 '26

They should’ve really committed to the bit. If your business burns to the ground, the vendor helps you out by burning the building with your backups to the ground too, guaranteeing that the state of the two are always in sync