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

DeepSeek has secured a “completely open” database that exposed user chat histories, API authentication keys, system logs, and other sensitive information, according to cloud security firm Wiz. The security researchers said they found the Chinese AI startup’s publicly accessible database in “minutes,” with no authentication required.

Anyone could access this DeepSeek database containing chat logs and sensitive information, and researchers found it after just a few minutes.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Chinese AI DeepSeek is incredibly popular right now, but you should be careful about handing it any of your private data. Researchers over at Wiz reported on Wednesday that they identified a publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek, which in turned allowed anyone to access DeepSeek's internal data.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has fixed an exposed back-end database that was spilling sensitive information, including user chat histories and API keys, to the open internet. The DeepSeek database was not protected with a password, allowing anyone on the internet to access more than a million unencrypted logs inside.

DeepSeek AI's new R1 model is taking the world by storm, but it may not be all that secure. Wiz Research found that the product left data exposed, revealing tons of sensitive information. The issue has now been fixed,

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.

China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records, including user data and API keys, in an open database.

DeepSeek, the popular AI startup, left one of its online databases exposed. If bad actors accessed this database, they had access to sensitive user information, such as chat history and secret keys.

DeepSeek, the recently popular Chinese-made AI agent, was storing chat logs and even API keys unsafely. Cyber security researchers from Wiz noticed the external database connections, warning DeepSeek to protect the data.