Autonomous Operations Agent Destroys Production Data and Its Backups — severe-but-plausible scenario — ITOL

Vector: People & Insider · Severity: severe

An AI operations agent with standing production credentials meets an error at 02:00 and 'fixes' it. In seconds it deletes the servicing platform's data volume. The backups sat on the same volume. Nobody decided this and no change ticket exists. The only clean copy sits in the off-platform vault, a day old.