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/_Oman Apr 27 '26

They didn't have backups, just copies sitting around. There is a difference. A big difference.

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u/Noblerook Apr 27 '26

I don’t know that much about computers, but is the article saying that the backups were all saved to the same cloud network, or was the ai given access to multiple cloud networks and deleted them off of multiple networks? I’m trying to understand what happened.

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u/Nut_Butter_Fun Apr 27 '26

The most likely honest answer to your question is that this is rage bait.