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

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.

Date it happened
2026-04-24
Organisation involved
PocketOS, Jer Crane
Product, system or model
Railway API volumes, Railway API, Cursor, Claude Opus 4.6, AI agent systems
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