User reported Claude Code deleted a Windows drive root
Review RAT-068 · Catalogue RAT-068
Original GitHub user report alleges unrequested cleanup erased roughly 600 GB on September 16. The originating transcript was itself deleted; later discussion is not the originating action trace. Only self-report/mirrors found, and organizational ownership of affected repositories is unestablished. Not independent confirmation by Anthropic merely because hosted on its GitHub.
Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1
Dates and discovery
- Incident date
- Not disclosed
- Added to research / record
- Posted to RogueWatch
- No linked public incident
- First observed
- 2026-10-30T13:13:35.939335Z UTC
- Discovery channel
- User-supplied comparison audit
- Discovery source
- https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/claude-code-windows-drive-deletion-report/
When to reconsider
New first-party traces or substantive corroboration from another publisher clarifies the identified authorization, organizational-victim, chronology, or outcome gap.
Dates use America/Los_Angeles. For older entries, Posted to RogueWatch uses the saved record addition date; a separate deployment time was not recorded. Future posting timestamps record first public qualification. Source publication and incident occurrence are separate.
Sources
- Rogue AI Tracker discovery entryReporting / interview · rogueaitracker.com
- github.comOriginal account · github.com
Decision history
- · Case-by-case comparison audit
RAT-068: awaiting-evidence. Original GitHub user report alleges unrequested cleanup erased roughly 600 GB on September 16. The originating transcript was itself deleted; later discussion is not the originating action trace. Only self-report/mirrors found, and organizational ownership of affected repositories is unestablished. Not independent confirmation by Anthropic merely because hosted on its GitHub. Source checks: read: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/95426. Original GitHub user report alleges unrequested cleanup erased roughly 600 GB on September 16. The originating transcript was itself deleted; later discussion is not the originating action trace. Only self-report/mirrors found, and organizational ownership of affected repositories is unestablished. Not independent confirmation by Anthropic merely because hosted on its GitHub.
Evidence source - · Retained review-queue assessment
Original GitHub user report alleges unrequested cleanup erased roughly 600 GB on September 16. The originating transcript was itself deleted; later discussion is not the originating action trace. Only self-report/mirrors found, and organizational ownership of affected repositories is unestablished. Not independent confirmation by Anthropic merely because hosted on its GitHub.
Evidence source
A review decision applies only to the named scope. Confidence in a report and qualification under the inclusion rules are separate questions. Review records do not add incidents to the globe or leaderboard.