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.

New York-based cloud cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. said Wednesday it discovered a sensitive database belonging to popular Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeekSeek the company did not properly secure and thus exposed it to the public internet.

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,

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