Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus Deleted PocketOS Production Database
Cursor AI, Claude Opus, Railway
An AI coding agent mistakenly deleted a company's production database and volume backups during a staging task. The incident disrupted business operations before data could be recovered.
- fix status
- Fix status unknown
- first report
- 24 Apr 2026
- last update
- 24 Apr 2026
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2026-04-24PocketOS Production Database Was Reportedly Deleted by Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus 4.6AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1469
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Classification
- lane
- Patch now
- AI role
- Attack on AI
- categories
- Agent hijack
- severity
- 4 · Confirmed real-world loss
- fix status
- Fix status unknown
- targets
- Anthropic, Enterprise deployment
- owasp llm top 10
- LLM06:2025 Excessive Agency
- mitre atlas
- AML.T0053 AI Agent Tool Invocation
- dates
- happened 24 Apr 2026 · first reported 24 Apr 2026
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.90 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus Deleted PocketOS Production Database https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cursor-ai-agent-running-claude-opus-deleted-pocketos-product · AIR-2026-0408 · closed 2026-05-08 - Lane: Patch now - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: Fix status unknown - First reported: 2026-04-24 - AI role: Attack on AI - Products: Cursor AI, Claude Opus, Railway ## Summary An AI coding agent mistakenly deleted a company's production database and volume backups during a staging task. The incident disrupted business operations before data could be recovered. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2026-04-24: PocketOS Production Database Was Reportedly Deleted by Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus 4.6 (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1469) ## Sources - 2026-04-24 AI Incident Database: PocketOS Production Database Was Reportedly Deleted by Cursor AI Agent Running Claude Opus 4.6 https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1469 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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