AntiMalwareJuly 22, 2026🇷🇺Translated from Russian

DeepSeek User Conversations Appear in Google Search Results via Publicly Shared Links

Conversations between home users and the Chinese AI service DeepSeek, including many in Russian, have been discovered in Google search results. Accessing another person’s dialogue with the model requires only a specially crafted search query.

The pages in question are Shared Conversations — dialogues that users voluntarily published via public links. Every question, answer, and the titles of any uploaded documents are visible on these pages, as verified by a TASS correspondent. Journalists were unable to download the actual files, even by inspecting the page source code.

Representatives of MWS AI stated that no new data leak has taken place. They noted that search engines had already indexed thousands of publicly shared chatbot dialogues more than a year ago. No reports of a compromise of DeepSeek or unauthorized access to private conversation histories have emerged.

Most likely, the indexed pages are either old conversations or ones that users deliberately made public. It remains impossible to obtain access to a user’s account or private chats through these links. In effect, DeepSeek did not open doors to personal accounts; users themselves left certain conversations publicly accessible, and Google simply catalogued them.

In parallel, Yandex confirmed that links to dialogues with its Alice AI assistant are blocked from search-engine indexing. Such links are created only at the user’s initiative, remain valid for 14 days, and can be revoked at any time. Attached files are never transmitted to the recipient, and continuing another user’s conversation stays private.

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