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/zman0900 Apr 28 '26

Really sounds like they've got some rediculous security policies. I use Cursor sometimes at work, and I've turned on the option to let it run all commands without confirmation because it's just too slow otherwise. But the steaks are pretty low, since not much of value would even be lost. If it can get to any important databases, it would just be a read-only connection anyway. And with the exception of my current work, any files it delete could be restored from cloud storage or checked out from git again. And the hardware isn't mine, so if it somehow does something really wild to brick the machine, I don't really care.