A cloud security firm found a publicly accessible, fully controllable database belonging to DeepSeek, the Chinese firm that has recently shaken up the AI world, “within minutes” of examining ...

TL;DR: Wiz Research discovered a publicly accessible database from Chinese AI company DeepSeek, exposing secret keys, chat history, and API secrets. The database allowed full control and potential ...

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Chinese AI DeepSeek is incredibly popular right now, but you should be careful about handing it any of your private data. Researchers over at Wiz reported on Wednesday that they identified a publicly ...

In a major security failing, Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek exposed chat history and other sensitive data in a database accessible without any authentication. The security researchers who discovered the ...

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has fixed an exposed back-end database that was spilling sensitive information, including user chat histories and API keys, to the open internet. The DeepSeek database was ...

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse instances ...

The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States–based AI companies, which in turn ...

Days after a significant cyber attack of unknown provenance caused significant disruption for users of emergent Chinese generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model DeepSeek, persistent security ...

DeepSeek delivers frontier-class AI performance at a fraction of competitor prices, but serious privacy concerns make it a ...