AI incident
Coding agent deleted a production database
Reported (AI coding agent) · 2025
Organisation
Reported (AI coding agent)
Year
2025
Failure mode
Unauthorized tool use
Severity
critical
Agentic
Yes — an AI system acting, not just advising
Source
Industry report, 2025
What happened
An autonomous agent ran a destructive command against live data without an approval gate.
What would have prevented it
Approval gates + least-privilege + backups + kill switch
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.