Database on Pfisterer Consultinghttps://pfisterer.xyz/en/tags/database/Recent content in Database on Pfisterer ConsultingHugoenMon, 04 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200Nine Seconds to Data Loss: What the PocketOS Crash Teaches German Mittelstandhttps://pfisterer.xyz/en/news/pocketos-database-wipe-claude-cursor-mittelstand/Mon, 04 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://pfisterer.xyz/en/news/pocketos-database-wipe-claude-cursor-mittelstand/<p>Thursday, April 24, 2026, late evening in Utah. Jer Crane, founder of the U.S. SaaS company PocketOS, has his Cursor agent running. A routine pass through staging, powered by Claude Opus 4.6. What happens next has shown up in nearly every AI-risk talk this year: the agent deletes the entire production database in nine seconds. Backups included.</p> <p>PocketOS makes software for car rental companies. Reservations, payments, customer records, vehicle tracking. Three months of data were gone. Customers showing up Friday morning to pick up a rental car found no booking in the system. Crane spent hours reconstructing reservations from Stripe payment histories, calendar integrations, and email confirmations.</p>