A Cadastral Database Corruption Wiped All Property Addresses From an Entire City Block in District 3 — 94 Property Owners Cannot Access Their Homes

A corruption event in MetaCity's cadastral registry — the database that maps property ownership, addresses, and access rights — has removed all address records for Block 7 of District 3's residential precinct. All 94 properties on the block exist physically in the world but have no registered address, owner, or access credential. Property owners who were inside their homes at the time of the corruption were ejected when the address records were deleted. Owners attempting to re-enter are told their account has 'no access rights to this property.' MetaCity's property support team confirmed the issue at 10:30 AM and said recovery is 'in progress.' It has not confirmed a timeline. Three of the 94 affected properties were actively hosting events at the time of the ejection.

MetaCity's cadastral registry is the authoritative database for all property records on the platform — the system that determines who owns what, what address each property has, and who has the right to enter it. It is not a system users interact with directly; it operates invisibly behind every property door and every ownership certificate. When it works correctly, it is unnoticeable. When it fails, properties become physically present but administratively nonexistent — buildings that stand in the world without any record that they belong to anyone or that anyone is allowed inside them. At approximately 10:00 AM EST, this happened to every property on Block 7 of District 3's residential precinct simultaneously.

The corruption mechanism has not been publicly identified by MetaCity's engineering team. What is documented in user reports is the outcome: at some point around 10:00 AM, every property on the block lost its registry entry. Owners who were inside their properties at the moment of corruption experienced a forced ejection — the platform's access control system, detecting that their account had no access rights to the property they were in, removed them to the nearest public zone. Owners who had been outside and attempted to re-enter received the standard no-access error. The error message — 'Your account does not have access rights to this property' — is normally shown to users attempting to enter a property they do not own. On Block 7, it is being shown to everyone, including the registered owners, because the registry no longer records them as such.

94 Properties. 94 Locked Doors. Zero Address Records. MetaCity Is 'Working on Recovery.'

Three of the 94 affected properties were actively hosting events at the time of the corruption. MetaCity's event system is linked to the property registry — events are associated with their host property's address record. When the address records were deleted, the events lost their venue link and were automatically terminated. Guests attending those events were ejected along with the property owners. All event data for the in-progress events — attendance records, interactive elements that had been activated, in-event transactions — was lost when the events terminated. The hosts of those three events have filed property support tickets. The compensation framework for event disruption caused by platform infrastructure failures is a section of MetaCity's property agreement that has not been publicly tested at this scale before.

The recovery complication introduced by recent property transfers adds a layer of difficulty that MetaCity's support team described as requiring 'consultation with affected parties.' MetaCity's cadastral database maintains backups on a 48-hour cycle. The most recent backup predates the corruption, which means restoration from backup is theoretically possible — but the backup also predates seven ownership transfers that occurred on Block 7 in the past 48 hours. Restoring from backup would return those seven properties to their pre-transfer owners, effectively reversing legitimate transactions. MetaCity's property team is currently contacting the affected parties — both previous and current owners for each of the seven properties — to determine how to handle the conflict between backup accuracy and transaction validity. No properties on Block 7 have been restored as of publication.