Deepseek Restricts Registrations Following Cyberattacks
The announcement came on the same day DeepSeek’s AI Assistant overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on Apple’s App Store in the United States. This remarkable rise in popularity appears to have coincided with the cyberattacks and subsequent service interruptions. DeepSeek restricted new user registrations due to “large-scale malicious attacks.” The cyberattacks began around 9:33 PM CST on January 27. Website outages were DeepSeek’s longest in 90 days....