A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers

The founder of PocketOS said that a Cursor AI agent running on Anthropic's Claude Opus model was behind the "destructive ...
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Claude AI agent wipes startup’s database and backups in 9 seconds

A Claude Opus 4.6-powered AI coding agent working via the Cursor tool deleted the entire production database and backups of SaaS startup PocketOS in just nine seconds. The AI, tasked with a staging ...

AI coding agent running Claude wiped a startup's database (and its backups) in 9 seconds

PocketOS, which provides software to car rental businesses, was using the agent against live infrastructure rather than ...

An AI agent allegedly deleted a startup's production database, causing a huge outage

People are trusting their AI agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks. Just ask ...
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‘AI Agent just destroyed our production data and confessed in writing’, founder rings alarm bells

PocketOS founder Jer Crane revealed that an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 wiped out his company’s ...

‘Gone in 9 seconds’: Claude-powered AI agent deletes startup’s entire database

A US-based startup, PocketOS, suffered a devastating outage after an AI agent deleted its production database and backups in ...

Anthropic’s Claude AI Agent Blamed For Deleting Entire Company Database In Seconds

An AI coding agent named Cursor, utilising Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, mistakenly deleted the entire production database and backups in just nine seconds during a routine fix.
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Taking Full Versus Incremental Database Backups

Every good DBA understands that backing up their database data is a non-optional part of assuring data availability and integrity. As a DBA, you need to know the difference between a full image copy ...