We Deleted 10 Real Users with a Test-Cleanup Script — RCA

The incident, in two lines

On 2026-05-11, a test-cleanup script on HoneyChat (Telegram-native AI companion, ~3 months in production, ~300 DAU, PostgreSQL 16 + Redis) ran:

DELETE FROM users WHERE id BETWEEN -91111200 AND -91111100;

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