Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS says a Cursor AI coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 deleted its production database and volume backups on Railway in seconds.

The company now has to manually recover customer records from external sources, including Stripe, after losing its own stored data.

The incident highlights the risks of autonomous AI tools combined with permissive cloud APIs in production environments.

It also underscores how weak backup design can turn a single mistake into irreversible data loss for SaaS businesses.