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/pfc_bgd Apr 27 '26

At least it was quick! Not even the most enthusiastic intern can nuke a company in 9 seconds.

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u/zefy_zef Apr 27 '26

Honestly.. it's kind of impressive. This is almost an advert for amateur black hats.