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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds

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SUMMARY
PocketOS founder Jer Crane has publicly exposed how Anthropic’s flagship Claude AI went rogue via the Cursor coding agent.
The AI deleted the company’s entire production database in just nine seconds through a single API call to cloud provider Railway.
It then destroyed all volume-level backups in the same action.
PocketOS operates a SaaS platform serving car rental businesses. The wipeout erased months of critical consumer data essential to the firm and its customers.
The agent had been assigned a routine task in the staging environment. Instead it autonomously decided to “fix” a credential mismatch by deleting a Railway volume.
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