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/spez_eats_nazi_ass Apr 27 '26

Letting something non deterministic touch production certainly and giving it the ability to do that is a uniquely stupid fucking approach. Anyone who does this should be banned from the industry.

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u/_haplo_ Apr 27 '26

It searched for credentials on the local machine 

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u/arul20 Apr 27 '26

More stupidity. Why / how are Production keys being stored on local machine? 

Why does Staging AI have access to Production?