If you have ever shared a conversation from DeepSeek using the "Share" button, it is worth checking your old links. This week, it was revealed that Google indexes the service's public dialogues, meaning some of them can be found via a regular search.
It is important to understand: this is not a leak of all chats nor a hack of DeepSeek. Only those conversations for which users manually created a public link via the Share feature entered search results. The problem is that many expected to share the dialogue with a specific person, rather than making it accessible to the entire internet.
Researcher David Konitzny discovered that thousands of such pages can be found in search results. Among them are work documents, personal correspondence, code snippets, financial calculations, and other data that users clearly did not plan to make public. Approximately 31% of the indexed dialogues were in Russian — the largest share among all chats found.
When generating a link, the service does warn that the conversation will become accessible to anyone with the link. However, it is not explained clearly enough to users that such a link can be indexed by Google search engines and found not only by the intended recipient, but by total strangers as well.
If you have ever created public links to your chats, it is best to check their list in DeepSeek's settings and delete any unneeded ones. Once deleted, the link will stop working, though its removal from search engine results may take some time.
