#apple CEO Tim Cook calls for Bloomberg to retract Chinese spy chip report
October 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Bloomberg to retract its story alleging that Chinese spies compromised a company server through the use of malicious microchips. It’s the first time Cook has gone on the record to contest the allegations.
“This did not happen. There’s no truth to this,” Cook said in the interview.
The initial Bloomberg report alleged that Chinese spies were able to infiltrate critical tech infrastructure belonging to companies like Apple and Amazon by injecting tiny microchips inside Supermicro servers. Allegedly, these hardware manipulations allowed the Chinese government backdoor access into computer networks run on those servers.
Quickly after the report’s publication, Apple released a…
