From the article, it sounds like that engineer did a lot of other reckless things even before handing the tasks over to the AI agent to continue the recklessness with even more abandon.

This is a case study in "if you don't know what you're doing, the answer is not just to hand it over to some AI bot to do it for you."

The answer is to hire a professional. That is if you care about your data, or even just your reputation.