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Report: DeepSeek’s chat histories and internal data were publicly exposed

Deepseek has exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information, as reported by Wiz Research.
The exposed databases held over a million log entries, including user chat history in plaintext form and API keys, according to Wiz Research.
Wiz Research discovered the exposure during a security assessment and alerted Deepseek, which promptly secured the databases.
The misconfiguration raises privacy concerns for organizations using Deepseek's AI model, as noted by Wiz.

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Fortune

Researchers say DeepSeek left sensitive information exposed, including users' chat histories

A cloud security firm has discovered a major data exposure involving Chinese AI company DeepSeek, raising security concerns amid the company's rapid rise.

22 days ago·New York, United States

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Ars Technica

Report: DeepSeek’s chat histories and internal data were publicly exposed

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 DeepSeek's security, according to a blog post by Wiz. An analytical ClickHouse database tied to DeepSeek, "completely open and unauthenticated," contained more than 1 million instances of "chat history, backend data, and sensitive information, including log …

23 days ago·United States

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BGR

The first major DeepSeek hack might have already happened

DeepSeek halted new account registrations a few days ago, just as the AI app surged in the App Store. The company blamed the limitation on a malicious attack, saying that DeepSeek AI account holders could access the service while newcomers would have to wait. I wondered at the time whether the malicious attack was real or whether it was a ploy to hide the fact that DeepSeek infrastructure might not be able to handle the influx of new users dying…

23 days ago

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CyberScoop

Wiz researchers find sensitive DeepSeek data exposed to internet

A security issue at Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek exposed over a million lines of sensitive internal data, including user chat histories, API secrets, and backend operational details, according to research published Wednesday by cloud security firm Wiz. The exposure, discovered earlier this month, stemmed from a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek’s systems. The database — hosted on two DeepSeek subdomains…

23 days ago

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Engadget

Security researchers found a big hole in DeepSeek's security

The cloud security firm Wiz Research found that DeepSeek left one of its databases exposed online. They were able to access user data, API keys and more.

23 days ago·United States

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Startups News | Tech News

DeepSeek security risk: Cybersecurity firm Wiz uncovers AI data leak—Fixed in under an hour - Tech Startups

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines for its AI models and has drawn attention for more than just its technology. Its DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model has been praised for matching OpenAI’s o1 in performance while offering a more cost-effective approach. […] The post DeepSeek security risk: Cybersecurity firm Wiz uncovers AI data leak—Fixed in under an hour first appeared on Tech Startups.

23 days ago

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