Newcomer / Intro Wanted status suddenly appears on restarting game - Is this a known bug?

I was playing Odyssey, on foot at a small horticultural facility where I'd delivered a (legal) package. I was crouched and following a technician outside (near the inflatable polytunnel tents) and about to scan him, but had not turned the profile scanner to the illegal setting. I was clean, no fines, bounties or notoriety.

My ship was nearby on the landing pad.

Then a Mauve Adder error happened and the game crashed. I reconnect to the internet and started the game. Suddenly, the nearest NPC shouted something like "I see them. They're here!" and drew a pistol. Alarms went off. Every marker went red. I ran to my nearby ship which wasn't landed properly on the pad, it was sort of buried slightly with its landing gear below the surface, so I had to run round the front and try to board the small bit of "blue cylinder" that I could see above the ground. Guards etc blasted my ship and got the shields down (it's only a Cobra, for the small pads) and I escaped with minor hull damage but... what?

Is this a known bug? Why was I suddenly wanted, with an 800 Cr fine? I had to relog to even pay that off at another settlement.
 
I have also, yesterday, had an earlier collection (legal) mission, and been scanned by a guard who then opened fire on me even though I was allied to the faction and clean. I escaped, went into Supercruise, revisited the same base (without relogging) and the same guard scanned me and left me alone.

What's going on?

Being randomly attacked is making the game hard to play.
 
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