Research Firm Wiz Research began investigating DeepSeek soon after its generative AI took the tech world by storm.

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.

DeepSeek “promptly secured” the database after Wiz notified the startup about the issue. It’s still not clear whether anyone else was able to access the exposed data, but th

DeepSeek AI exposed a database containing secret keys, chat logs, and backend data, allowing full system access.