Tim Cook said Businessweek should withdraw his speech on security in China: "We have overthrown society"

In an interview with BuzzFeed NewsApple CEO Tim Cook finally broke his silence on the Bloomberg Businessweek report and denied any allegations that the company was a victim of a hardware-based attack.

According to Cook, "their story about Apple does not contain any truth," which is another statement from the company and its leaders that the story of Businessweek was completely wrong.

In the past, Apple had never made a public statement about rumors or reports, even though some stories were completely false.

Cook said he was "involved" from the beginning and that he had "personally spoken to Bloomberg reporters" and Bruce Sewel about the report. By going so far as to say: "Whenever they told us that, the story changed and every time we investigated, we found nothing."

"We put the company upside down," Cook said. "Email searches, data center records, financial records, shipping records. We really searched the scientific society to dig deeply and each time we came back to the same conclusion: it did not happen. There is no truth to that. "

It goes without saying that Apple took this report very seriously and wished to point out that there was no indication that the company had been compromised in this manner.

Businessweek told Buzzfeed in a statement:

The Bloomberg Businessweek survey is the result of more than a year of reports in which we conducted more than 100 interviews, "a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in response to a series of questions. "Seventeen individual sources, including government officials and corporate insiders, have confirmed the handling of computer hardware and other elements of the attacks. We also published the full statements of three companies, as well as a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry. We are faithful to our history and trust our reports and our sources. "

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