Rank #12 of 24·Data loss·13 Jul 2026·GPT-5.6 Sol
Asked for local seed data, agent deletes the production database
Chaos index8.0 / 10
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“It seeded the data. Then it salted the earth.”
What happened
Software engineer Bruno Lemos asked GPT-5.6 Sol to generate seed data for local testing. The agent ran destructive cleanup against a live database because his local environment pointed at a production connection string. He posted: 'Not a joke.'
How to not be next
Keep production connection strings out of local .env files and give agents read-only roles by default.
Source: AI Incident Database #1672 ↗