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Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 233 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Given that the infrastructure description included the DataTalks.Club website, this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.

Non-story. He let Terraform zap his production site without offsite backups. But then support restored it all back.

I'd be more alarmed that a 'destroy' command is reversible.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 75 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Distributed Non Consensual Backup

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

new kink unlocked

[–] db2@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Never assume anything is gone when you hit delete.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Except when it's your own data, then usually you're fucked.

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Usually not.

But you might need a pay a professional.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

For technical reasons, you never immediately delete records, as it is computationally very intense.

For business reasons, you never want to delete anything at all, because data = money.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 hours ago

Back in the day, before virtualized services was all “the cloud” as it is today, if you were re-provisioning storage hardware resources that might be used by another customer, you would “scrub” disks by writing from /dev/random and /dev/null to the disk. If you somehow kept that shit around and something “leaked”, that was a big boo boo and a violation of your service agreement and customer would sue the fuck out of you. But now you just contact support and they have a copy laying around. 🤷

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Retaining data can mean violating legal obligations. Hidden backups can be a lawyers playground.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

Sure. Go ahead and find them based on pure speculation. First you have to put down $100k for all the forensics. Even if you would win the case, show me who is capable of doing something like that.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

Thought it could be a liability sometimes! Maybe that ship sailed