In the US, fired and laid-off workers often have their digital credentials deactivated before they learn about the loss of their jobs; indeed, the inability to log in to a corporate system may be the ...

One moment, a tech company had a functioning production database and intact backups. Fewer than ten seconds later, it had neither. A coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude model, assigned to ...

'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer ...

The world remains abuzz about AI’s potential to contribute to the greater good of humanity. For instance, Firefox developer Mozilla recently proclaimed that AI could effectively end the era of ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database ...

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A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela. The malware was uploaded to a publicly ...

Ransomware and other cyberthreats often dominate conversations about data loss, but they are not the only risks businesses face. Everyday issues such as hardware failures, accidental deletions and ...

Back in 2024, T-Mobile started selling a Backup Internet plan that really was supposed to be there for emergencies, when your main home internet plan went down. Using T-Mobile’s 5G network, during an ...