Bloomberg prompted to retract

Earlier this month, Bloomberg issued an explosive report claiming that agents of a Chinese intelligence organization had successfully installed malicious material on Supermicro servers that were eventually used by companies like Apple and Amazon.

Apple gave Bloomberg a statement belies it, although the report states: "Corporate refusals are being opposed by six senior national security officials, both current and past, who began conversations that began under the Obama administration and continued under the Trump administration – have detailed flea discovery and government investigation ". They need to do the right thing and retract. Bloombergin the meantime, does not seem to want to do such a thing.

Cook claims to have been involved in the original report of the publication from the beginning, claiming that he had spoken to reporters about the story, with Bruce Sewell, Apple's general counsel at the time.

In response to Cook's statement, Bloomberg "We are confident in this report that has led us more from one year. Each time, we conducted rigorous internal investigations based on their investigations and each time we found absolutely no evidence to support them. "

"We upset the company," Cook m said.

"Email searches, data center records, financial records, shipping records". Apple and Amazon have m said they have no knowledge of finding or removing servers containing the type of spy chips Bloomberg presumed to have been found in business networks.

In addition, as a journalist Nicole Perlroth it is noted, one of the journalists of the Bloomberg story – Michael Riley – had also done a story In 2014, boldly claiming that the NSA had exploited the Heartbleed bug, many other reports have torn this story to pieces, with many people denying it and no one confirming it.

Since the publication of the report, a series of statements by government officials and information security professionals – including some named in the stories – cast doubts on the main demands of the report. "There is no truth in their story about Apple, & # 39; Cook m said. National Cybersecurity Center of the United Kingdom (owned by GCHQ) m said they completely backed Apple and Amazon that no such attack had taken place. Although there are often inaccurate rumors and others stories published about Apple, the company rarely requests a retraction.

The report also drew criticism from US intelligence chiefs.