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PocketOS maker says an AI agent “deleted our production database in 9 seconds.”
The details of what happened should be taken with a grain of salt since some of its self-reported by the chatbot, which can be tricky. But according to Jer Crane, a Cursor coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 found a credential mismatch that it fixed by deleting a Railway volume that contained production data and the recent backups, using a token it found that they hadn’t realized would allow that kind of access via Railway’s API for AI agents.
It was eventually recovered, and everyone is vibe coding once again.
An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.
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