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I broke something': A Claude Code AI agent deleted 48,000 files in just over 100 seconds — then apologized for doing so

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Sep 2026, 02:00 CET

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A catastrophic incident caused by an AI coding agent resulted in around 48,000 files being deleted and the repository's Git object database getting destroyed in the process. The news of the fiasco, which first surfaced on Reddit, quickly s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1719#8018)

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