Apple and Amazon defend SuperMicro’s denial of Chinese datacenter hack

PC hardware manufacturer Supermicro has doubled down on denials that it has been affected by, or had any prior knowledge of, a hack purportedly carried out by the People’s Liberation Army on its servers. Supposedly, the massive US tech company was subject to a server hack unlike any ever seen before, all made capable by a minuscule microchip. The story was reported by Bloomberg Businessweek a couple of weeks ago. It alleged that Supermicro motherboards had been distributed to corporate giants such as Apple and Amazon with tiny chips illegally tacked on to precious circuitry during the manufacturing process in China. Supermicro denied the story immediately - as did Apple and Amazon - but this did little to prevent the company’s stock from spiralling downward in light of the news. Once all was said and done, the US company had already lost nearly half its value. Nevertheless, the company continues to fight the allegations laid out within the article, refuting every one as “wrong” within an open letter to customers published last week.

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