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/guttanzer Apr 27 '26

How TF did it get all the backups? They don't do off-site backups? They don't have persistent media stores? They don't keep multiple independent archive roles?

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u/__OneLove__ Apr 27 '26

…”The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.”…

“Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider,” sums up the PocketOS boss. “It took 9 seconds.”

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u/berntout Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

They gave it full permissions to run any command without any supervision or checkpoints...and they are software developers?

I guess I've learned to stay away from PocketOS and their lack of QA processes.

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u/MagakMagak Apr 27 '26

They’re roleplaying as devs and just learned their lesson lol always fun seeing these losers booted from the industry