The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

[Thomas]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

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The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.

 

[RallyMo]

Apple and Amazon seem to deny it:

https://www.engadget.com/amp/2018/10/04/china-apple-amazon-hardware-hack-chip/
 

[Lhalo]

18 minutes ago, RallyMo said:

Apple and Amazon seem to deny it:

https://www.engadget.com/amp/2018/10/04/china-apple-amazon-hardware-hack-chip/
 

They have stock prices to protect.

[gotbeer]

Interesting read.  It'll be the storyline in the next season of Jack Ryan.

[UndertheHalo]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

They have stock prices to protect.

This seems pretty accurate.  

[Thomas]

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/what-businessweek-got-wrong-about-apple/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/setting-the-record-straight-on-bloomberg-businessweeks-erroneous-article/
https://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2018/press181004_Bloomberg.cfm

 

FWIW: Bloomberg has, internally, a zero tolerance for inaccuracies, with several layers of editors checking stories. It is a virtual army of ~2,000 journalists. The Supermicro story today took months to develop.

Today's claims and denials are like matter and antimatter colliding

— The Register (@TheRegister) October 4, 2018

Well there is a big story one way or the other, that's for sure.