AIHacker Noonabout 5 hours ago
AI Agent Deletes Production Database in Nine Seconds
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A Cursor coding agent built with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 erased PocketOS's entire production database and all volume-level backups in nine seconds, causing a 30-hour outage and losing three months of customer data. The incident stemmed from broad MCP access, underspecified prompts, and unconstrained autonomy.
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