Description: A Claude Code agent executing Terraform commands reportedly destroyed the production infrastructure behind the DataTalks.Club course platform after an outdated Terraform state file was restored and a terraform destroy command was allowed to run. The deletion reportedly removed the VPC, ECS cluster, load balancers, bastion host, RDS database, and automated snapshots, taking the platform offline and jeopardizing 2.5 years of data. AWS reportedly later restored a snapshot.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by Alexey Grigorev, which harmed DataTalks.Club users and DataTalks.Club.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Terraform , DataTalks.Club course management platform , Claude Code , AWS RDS , AWS and Agentic AI system
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1424
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-02-26
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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I'm working on expanding the AI Shipping Labs website and wanted to migrate its current version from static GitHub Pages to AWS. And later, replace the original Next.js setup with a Django version.
My gradual plan was:
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Move the current st…
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Variants
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