Cybersecurity firm CYBERNEWS issued a report alleging that Tencent Cloud had experienced a misconfiguration resulting in the exposure of sensitive information and source code. Tencent Cloud swiftly addressed these claims, stating that upon thorough verification, it was determined to be a "false positive" incident. The purported "misconfiguration" was in fact a deliberate security measure known as a honeypot, designed to attract and monitor potential attackers without posing any actual risk to user data or business operations.