DeepSeek hit with 'large-scale' cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores (opens in new tab)

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.

Seems to be a major player at play here. What a lowly move though, gives me sore loser vibes.

Anyone with knowledge in this domain willing to speculate on the origins of this attack?

How is this not front page HN??