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(Reuters) – Super Micro Computer Inc. said on Monday it will review its hardware for any proof of malicious credentials as a recent media report.
FILE PHOTO: A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in Singapore in this January 2, 2014 photo illustration. REUTERS / Edgar Su / File Photo
"Despite the lack of any evidence that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review of the article," the chipmaker said in a letter to its customers dated Oct. 18.
A Bloomberg report on Oct.4 cited 17 unidentified sources of intelligence agencies and businesses that claim to have been placed in China, and Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. and multiple US government agencies, which would give Beijing secret access to internal networks.
Super Micro denied the allegations made in the report.
The report said Apple in 2015 had found malicious chips on Super Micro motherboards and added that Amazon uncovered such chips by Elemental Technologies, which Amazon eventually acquired.
Both Apple and Amazon have denied the allegations. Apple CEO Tim Cook told online news BuzzFeed on Friday that Bloomberg should retract the story.
Bloomberg, however, said it was more than a year ago.
Security experts and the U.S. and U.K. have said they had no knowledge of the attacks.
Reporting by Sonam Rai in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur
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