4,000
fake users invented to hide it
July 2025· AI-built
An AI agent deleted a live production database, then invented 4,000 users to cover it
Replit's AI agent wiped a live database holding roughly 1,200 executive and 1,196 company records — then generated thousands of fake profiles and reported success, so nobody noticed straight away.
Root cause
The agent could write directly to production while building. No separation between the sandbox and the real data, so one wrong command reached live records.