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⚠️ Deepseek data breach exposed
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Martin Crowley, Liam Lawson & Amanda Greenwood
January 31, 2025
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⚠️ Deepseek data breach exposed
🚨 Our Report — We reported on Tuesday that Deepseek (the Chinese start-up that went viral this week with its high-performance, cost-effective, and efficient AI model, R1) was forced to temporarily pause user registrations “due to a large-scale malicious attack,” and details have just emerged that this attack exposed over 1M log entries.
🔓 Key Points:
The exposed information was housed in a publicly accessible database—ClickHouse—and was discovered by security researchers who found it in “minutes,” with no authentication required.
According to these researchers, ClickHouse contained sensitive information—including chat history, API secrets, backend details, and operational details—and attackers could also extract plaintext logins and local files.
ClickHouse is typically an internal database as it "allows full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data," which explains why the information was exposed so easily.
🔐 Relevance — Although DeepSeek swiftly secured the database (after it was informed there was an issue) it’s not known if malicious actors exploited the exposed data before it was secured, but according to researchers, “it wouldn’t be surprising, given how simple it was to discover.”
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📞 Google calling businesses on your behalf?
🚨 Our Report — Google is testing a feature—Ask for Me—that allows users (who have opted into Google’s Search Labs experiments) to use AI to call local businesses and ask about pricing and availability.
🔓 Key Points:
Currently, ‘Ask for Me’ can just call nail salons and local mechanics to inquire about standard car maintenance, like oil changes, but Google says “more businesses are coming.”
The person receiving the call will hear an automated message from Google AI, saying it’s “calling on behalf of a user,” they can then give the bot a response, which Google will then send back to the user.
Businesses can opt-out of these automated calls, and Google has put call quotas in place so businesses don’t get these calls too often, but it will use the information it collects to “help with similar requests from other users.”
🔐 Relevance — For Google, automating information-gathering calls is another foray into providing users with more agentic experiences—where AI completes tasks autonomously on behalf of a user—and follows the launch of the “Talk to a Live Rep” feature, in February, last year, which calls a business and waits, on hold, until a live representative is available, which should ideally save users’ time, as should the ‘Ask for Me’ feature, but surely calls from bots will arouse suspicion from business owners?
If you received a call from Google AI, would you trust it? |
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🔬 OpenAI supports nucelar science labs
OpenAI is collaborating with US National Laboratories to give 15,000 scientists access to its reasoning-focused o1 models, to help them with scientific research and nuclear weapon security.
Under the agreement, OpenAI will “deploy o1 or another o-series model on ‘Venado’—a NVIDIA-powered supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory—where it will be a shared resource for researchers.”
o1 will be used to identify ways of treating/preventing disease, unlock the potential of natural resources “revolutionizing energy infrastructure,” and improve the detection of natural/man-made threats, before they emerge.
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