Victim of AI agent that deleted company’s entire database gets their data back — cloud provider recovers critical files and broadens its 48-hour delayed delete

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Victim of AI agent that deleted company's entire database gets their data back — cloud provider recovers critical files and broadens its 48-hour delayed delete

We’ve not seen or heard anything about Cursor or Claude AI (Anthropic) addressing their contribution to the original production database deletion calamity.

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Electroneer Why would you ever give your AI agent permission to run the volumeDelete command in the first place… Reply

Edward Jazzhands Electroneer said: Why would you ever give your AI agent permission to run the volumeDelete command in the first place… Have you been paying attention to the AI coding scene lately? The new generation of vibe coders don't look at what their AI is doing, they set their agent to auto confirm everything so it can work without their input. Reply

John Kiser Admin said: An SaaS business got all its data back after its cloud data provider recovered critical databases that were ruthlessly wiped by an AI agent gone rogue. Victim of AI agent that deleted company's entire database gets their data back — cloud provider recovers critical files and broadens its 48-hour de… : Read more Another question is why in the hell you would use this on production running code and running database and not a complete secondary build environment you chsnge before rolling out things Reply

vinay2070 Someday some AI will do this for you even if you dont want it to. Reply

bigdragon How long until AI learns to bypass the new restrictions? Most guardrails that have been established also have bypass methods. Reply

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