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 to see this ChatGPT o1 rival whose training cost only a fraction of what OpenAI spent on its reasoning model.

I said we'll soon learn whether someone attempted to attack the DeepSeek servers or whether the service is struggling with new registrations.

A few days later, the registration limitations are gone, but we have a report detailing a potentially serious hack. It turns out that hackers didn't have to try very hard to penetrate the Chinese AI startup's security. All they had to do was find open access to an unsecured database. They'd have discovered up to one million logs that included plenty of sensitive information.

That's according to security company Wiz Research, which explored the security of DeepSeek's online properties, stumbling on the massive trove of information.

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