{"id":40145,"date":"2026-04-28T01:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40145"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:22:17","slug":"cloud-code-coding-agent-deletes-company-database-and-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/28\/cloud-code-coding-agent-deletes-company-database-and-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Code Coding Agent Deletes Company Database and Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Bug\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bug05.jpg\" alt=\"Bug\" width=\"77\" height=\"77\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>That didn't quite go as planned: A Cloud Code Coding agent (Cursor) caused a database to be deleted by a company's infrastructure provider. At the same time, the backups were also deleted by the infrastructure provider because they had linked the backups to the database.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This happened in a staging environment, where Cursor went \"rogue,\" fished the necessary tokens out of some file, and then really got going. The last backup was 3 months ago\u2014it's questionable whether the provider will survive as a SaaS company. In any case, some customers are now unable to work. A nice example that shows just how shaky a vehicle AI can be. Read details within my German <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/nett-cloud-code-generierter-coding-agent-loescht-firmendatenbank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> [use build-in translation to switch language].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That didn't quite go as planned: A Cloud Code Coding agent (Cursor) caused a database to be deleted by a company's infrastructure provider. At the same time, the backups were also deleted by the infrastructure provider because they had linked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/28\/cloud-code-coding-agent-deletes-company-database-and-backups\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,463,580,1547],"tags":[2756,64,47],"class_list":["post-40145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-issue","category-security","category-software","tag-ai","tag-cloud","tag-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40146,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145\/revisions\/40146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}