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Re:DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI cha... by creato on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:17AM (#42849717)
DeepSeek offers for free/extremely cheap, a very expensive to provide service, requiring huge server infrastructure, to a userbase that probably grew by 3+ orders of magnitude in the last week.

There's no way they weren't going to be forced to throttle user signups, "cyberattack" or not.

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Re:DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI cha... by negativelambda on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:49AM (#42849579)
Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?
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Re:DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI cha... by jdthedisciple on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:47AM (#42850932)
How is this not front page HN??
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Re:DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI cha... by maeil on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:16AM (#42852520)
To be fair, I recently posted a prolonged Anthropic complete API outage (when Sonnet 3.5 was best in town) and it got zero traction, so it's not unimaginable.

Agreed it's a bit suprising though.

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Re:DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI cha... by jdthedisciple on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:49AM (#42850947)
Seems to be a major player at play here. What a lowly move though, gives me sore loser vibes.
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