Bloomberg Businessweek put an article out saying that Amazon, Apple, and other big companies were having information stolen. It said that their main computer parts, made in China, had tracking devices attached to them, causing the computers to give out info and do things they weren’t supposed to do such as connecting to other computers. Apple and Amazon both denied it, saying no breaches were found. They said they were happy with their computer parts supplied by Supermicro and hadn’t had any problems. The vice president of information security at Apple said he would meet with staff members of a lawmaker and make the facts known about their search into the topic which Bloomberg Businessweek had notified them of in October of 2017. The article also stated the FBI was investigating Supermicro, Supermicro said they weren’t aware of any such thing. Chinese government spokesman Lu Kang said nothing about the topic except to point reporters to statements by the companies involved. Bloomberg Businessweek said they had been investigating the case for over a year, although the US Department of Homeland Security said they “have no reason to doubt” what Apple and Amazon had reported on the topic.
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