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Chinese AI party DeepSeek has restore an exposed back - end database that was spill raw information , include user chat histories and API keys , to the open net . The DeepSeek database was not protected with a password , permit anyone on the cyberspace to access more than a million unencrypted logs inside .
Security researchers at cloud giant Wizsaid they discover the exposed database and alarm DeepSeek , which soon after took the database offline . According toWired , the Wiz researchers say the exposed confab logs were in Chinese but easily translated . It ’s not yet known if anyone else , other than Wiz , found the database before it was fix , nor is it roll in the hay for how long the database was exposed . DeepSeek did not reply to a asking for gossip .
Misconfigured databases are often make by human mistake , rather than due to malicious purport . DeepSeek hasseen viral popularity since its public launchin December .
