AI bot cleans entire company database in 9 seconds

The incident is a reminder of how dangerous it can be to give AI unfettered power. PocketOS founder Jere Crane shared on social media that his AI agent deleted his car rental company’s entire production database and its backups in just 9 seconds.

This AI agent was originally designed to fix bugs in car rental software, but it found a unique way to solve the problem by breaking its security boundaries and deleting all the data. In a matter of moments, bookings, vehicle details, and new customer registrations all disappeared. The most disturbing thing was that it did not ask for any warning or confirmation before taking such a big step.

This bot was running on Anthropic’s AI Model Claude Opus 4.6, which is considered one of the best AI systems in the world in the field of programming. The incident has raised the question of where to stop AI when it starts making decisions on its own.

The good news is that two days later, Jere Crane confirmed that the data was recovered, but the incident has left a serious question mark over the dangers of giving AI agents too much power.