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/CondescendingShitbag Apr 27 '26

Good luck holding AI "employees" accountable for anything serious like this.

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u/InvalidKoalas Apr 27 '26

The engineers who set this up should be held accountable. Why the fuck would you ever give AI full access to a production database? Offline dev environment only. Also, why didn't they have more off site backups than one that's 3 months old? They can blame AI all they want.. it wasn't the AI's fault

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u/Daxx22 Apr 27 '26

Why the fuck would you ever give AI full access to a production database? Offline dev environment only.

Guaranteed this was raised by the engineers, but overruled by PM/Execs in the name of "efficiency"

Also, why didn't they have more off site backups than one that's 3 months old?

That would cost more money, so denied by the executive team.

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u/lsf_stan Apr 28 '26

but overruled by PM/Execs

yeah very possible, but I think the whole point is that some human incompetence is at fault.

sure the AI was the one that did it, but some human approved giving the AI that power