Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Cursor , Anysphere and Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by PocketOS and Jer Crane, which harmed PocketOS , PocketOS customers and Car rental businesses.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Cursor , Railway API volumes , Railway API , Claude Opus 4.6 and Agentic AI system
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1469
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-04-24
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The founder of PocketOS, a B2B company that handles reservations and payments for car rental businesses, has bemoaned the "systemic failures" that saw an AI agent decide to solve a problem by straight-up deleting his company's production da…
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