Chinese Spies Infiltrated 30 American Companies Including Apple And Amazon By Embedding Chips On Their Server Boards



Daily Mail: US officials say Chinese military spies infiltrated 30 American companies including Apple and Amazon by secretly embedding rice-sized computer chips onto server motherboards

* The attack is said to have happened in 2015 and targeted customers of Super Micro Computer Inc, the country's largest server supplier
* Unnamed sources tell Bloomberg that Chinese spies from the People's Liberation Army designed the tiny chips
* They infiltrated subcontractor factories where the Supermicro servers were being built and slipped the chips onto the motherboards, it is claimed
* The servers then made their way into Apple data centers worldwide and Amazon's Web Services data centers in Beijing, officials say
* The chips opened the door for Chinese hackers to rewrite server code and enable them to harvest data
* Amazon and Apple both discovered the breach in the first half of 2015, insiders say
* The companies both severed ties with Supermicro afterwards for reasons they say are unrelated reasons
* No data was actually stolen but they goal was to steal consumer and government data over a long period of time
* Both Amazon, Apple and Supermicro strongly refute the story

US officials have shared details of a widespread hardware hack which saw Chinese spies infiltrate 30 American companies, including Amazon and Apple, in 2015 by planting rice-sized computer chips onto their server motherboards which gave hackers access to sensitive consumer and government data.

The unnamed officials detailed the astonishing breach for the first time publicly in an expose by Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday.

Amazon, Apple and Super Micro Computer Inc, the motherboard manufacturer which the officials say was compromised, all deny it officially but unnamed workers from both Apple and Amazon confirmed details of the hack, and how they dumped Supermicro afterwards.

Chinese officials also denied the attack.

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WNU Editor: The circus of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination is sucking all the oxygen in this news cycle, but this Chinese spy story is huge. These U.S. companies handle almost all of America's data, and this Chinese attempt to take it must be addressed by the U.S. government. Everyone is (of course) denying this, but Bloomberg that broke this story is claiming that multiple sources have confirmed it. Their reporting is below:

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