Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data

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January 29, 2025, 9:34 PM

• •Researchers from the cloud security firm Wiz published findings on Wednesday that show that DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed on the internet.
• •The database contained system logs, user prompt submissions, and even users’ API authentication tokens—totaling more than 1 million records.
• •The researchers say that the trove they found appears to have been a type of open source database typically used for server analytics called a ClickHouse database.

DeepSeek is a Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform that has had a meteoric rise this week. However, researchers from the cloud security firm Wiz have published findings that show that DeepSeek left one of its critical databases exposed on the internet, leaking system logs, user prompt submissions, and even users' API authentication tokens—totaling more than 1 million records—to anyone who came across the database.

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