My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

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My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

https://blog.pavementlink.ch/2026/05/07/my-first-corrupted-hard-drive-problem/

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IDrive.com lost all of my backup data. No user error. No support assistance.

Mashable: New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB. “The ransomware contains a critical coding flaw that permanently destroys any file larger than 128 kilobytes rather than encrypting it. That threshold is smaller than a typical email attachment, meaning virtually every file that would matter to a victim — databases, backups, virtual machine disks, documents, spreadsheets — is […]

A Cursor AI agent wiped #PocketOS’ production database and backups in just 9 seconds after misusing a root API token, exposing serious risks in AI-driven coding and cloud setups.

Read more: https://hackread.com/cursor-ai-agent-wipes-pocketos-database-backups/

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New Yorker: When Your Digital Life Vanishes. “DriveSavers receives some twenty thousand inquiries each month. It has saved data for government agencies, multinational corporations, and more than a few celebrities, whose autographed portraits beamed from the lobby walls. Sidney Poitier recovered a draft of his memoir through the company’s good offices; Khloé Kardashian, a phone that fell into […]

Tom’s Hardware: Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue. “Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database. The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API […]

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