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title: "An AI agent allegedly deleted a startup's production database, causing a huge outage"
date: 2026-04-27
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description: "In an API call to cloud infrastructure provider Railway, the AI agent managed to delete the PocketOS production database and \"all volume-level backups\" in less than 10 seconds. Perhaps the most ..."
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# An AI agent allegedly deleted a startup's production database, causing a huge outage

In an API call to cloud infrastructure provider Railway, the AI agent managed to delete the PocketOS production database and "all volume-level backups" in less than 10 seconds. Perhaps the most ...

*Published: 2026-04-27*