A Bloomberg report in October claimed that Apple, Amazon, and almost 30 other companies have been the subject of hacking by Chinese spies embedding chips in hardware for surveillance purposes. Apple says this simply wasn’t true, and a new report backs up the Cupertino, California-based company.
Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer tells customers that an outside investigations firm had found no evidence of any malicious hardware in its current or older-model motherboards. An unnamed “person familiar with the analysis” told Reuters it had been conducted by global firm Nardello & Co. Nardello tested samples of motherboards in current production and versions that were sold to Apple and Amazon, which were both named in the Bloomberg article.
