🚨 Breaking News: DeepSeek Suffers Cyberattack, Limits New Registrations
Today, January 28, 2025, Chinese startup DeepSeek, known for its AI model that rivals giants like ChatGPT, announced that it is facing a large-scale cyberattack. Due to these "malicious attacks", the company has been forced to temporarily limit new registrations on its platform to ensure the continuity of services for existing users.
The attacks began to be detected late yesterday, Beijing time, resulting in DeepSeek's first significant service interruption in nearly 90 days. The company, which recently gained notoriety by surpassing ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app on the US App Store, is investigating the nature of the attack, but has not yet provided specific details about the type of attack or those possibly responsible. DeepSeek’s meteoric rise, marked by its DeepSeek-V3 model, which claims to rival the most advanced AI models on the market at a significantly lower cost, appears to have put the platform in the crosshairs of hackers. The incident raises concerns about cybersecurity for rapidly growing AI startups, especially in an environment where global technological competition is intensifying.
DeepSeek said it is working diligently to resolve the issue and fully restore logging capabilities, and asks for its users’ patience and understanding. In the meantime, the technology and cybersecurity community is keeping a close eye on developments, pondering the implications of this attack for data security and the future development of AI models.