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PocketOS Production Database Was Reportedly Deleted by Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus 4.6

Name: PocketOS Production Database Was Reportedly Deleted by Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus 4.6 — incident record
Creator: AI Incident Tracker, LLC
Published: 2026-04-24
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Reported allegations — unverified

The events described below are based on reporting from the cited sources. No court ruling or regulator finding has been issued. Companies named are presumed not to have admitted liability unless explicitly stated.

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

Editorial note

Source confirms Railway API call deleted prod DB + backups in 9 seconds. Strong, single-source but unambiguous.

Sources

This record summarizes the cited reports. See the sources panel for the underlying URLs and archive copies.

Sources

01
pcgamer.com — Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I violated every principle I was given'
secondary4/28/2026
02
AI Incident Database — AIID incident #1469
secondary4/24/2026

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