Wiz, a cloud security firm, says it has uncovered a massive data exposure involving Chinese AI company DeepSeek.

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.

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.

Anyone could access this DeepSeek database containing chat logs and sensitive information, and researchers found it after just a few minutes.

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.