Wiz, a cybersecurity company based in New York, has discovered a publicly accessible ClickHouse database owned by DeepSeek, which lets full control over database operations, including access to internal data.
As per the Wiz’s blog post, the exposed data showed over a million lines of log streams.
This includes chat history, secret keys, backend details, and other highly sensitive information, which appears to contain user prompts sent to DeepSeek’s free AI assistant.
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The Wiz’s research team immediately informed DeepSeek regarding the issue, and the company promptly secured the data.
DeeSeek, a Chinese company, developed its R1 reasoning model for training large AI models at a lower cost than usual.
It has gained a lot of popularity and suppressed OpenAI’s O1 models in several tests. The company claims to have trained its model with 671 billion parameters for only $5.6 million, using 2,048 Nvidia H800 graphics cards.
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