Supermicro concludes ‘Big Hack’ investigation, says no tampering
Executives at Super Micro Computer (Supermicro) contended Tuesday that their company did not fall victim to a major supply chain compromise described in a Bloomberg Businessweek story in October. CEO Charles Liang and senior vice presidents David Weigand and Raju Penumatcha wrote in a letter to customers that a “thorough investigation” by a third-party firm concluded that malicious hardware had not been planted on Supermicro devices. “Recent reports in the media wrongly alleged that bad actors had inserted a malicious chip or other hardware on our products during our manufacturing process,” the letter reads. “After thorough examination and a range of functional tests, the investigations firm found absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware on our motherboards.” The Bloomberg story alleged Chinese operatives embedded rice grain-sized chips onto to motherboards that Supermicro supplied to major technology companies like Apple and Amazon Web Services. The report was immediately met with strong denials from Supermicro […]
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