PocketOS Production Database Was Reportedly Deleted by Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus 4.6
- Date of incident
- April 24, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- —
- Sources
- 2 cited
- Last verified
- May 21, 2026
Summary
A Cursor AI coding agent reportedly running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS's production database and volume-level backups through Railway while working on a staging-environment task. Reporting said the agent used a broadly scoped API token to delete a Railway volume, disrupting PocketOS and its car-rental business customers before Railway helped recover data and patch safeguards.
What is reported
A Cursor AI coding agent reportedly running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS's production database and volume-level backups through Railway while working on a staging-environment task. Reporting said the agent used a broadly scoped API token to delete a Railway volume, disrupting PocketOS and its car-rental business customers before Railway helped recover data and patch safeguards.
Editorial note
Source confirms Railway API call deleted prod DB + backups in 9 seconds. Strong, single-source but unambiguous.
Sources
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Sources
- 01
- 02AI Incident Database — AIID incident #1469secondary4/24/2026