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Super Micro trashes Bloomberg chip hack story in recent customer letter

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

In a letter sent to customers last week, Super Micro Computer (dba Supermicro) has thrashed a Bloomberg article that claimed the company’s motherboards contained a secret chip inserted by the Chinese government for cyber-espionage purposes.

“We are confident that a recent article, alleging a malicious hardware chip was implanted during the manufacturing process of our motherboards, is wrong,” the Super Micro letter starts.

Read more on ZDNet.

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