Tim Cook lambastes Bloomberg for iCloud spy chip report, calls for retraction
Apple CEO Tim Cook has uncharacteristically spoken out about the Bloomberg report that claimed that the Chinese had inserted a spy chip into the company's iCloud server, and is completely denying that Apple was impacted
"I was involved in our response to this story from the beginning," said Cook. "I personally talked to the Bloomberg reporters along with Bruce Sewell who was then our general counsel. We were very clear with them that this did not happen, and answered all their questions. Each time they brought this up to us, the story changed and each time we investigated we found nothing."
"We turned the company upside down. Email searches, datacenter records, financial records, shipment records," Cook added. "We really forensically whipped through the company to dig very deep and each time we came back to the same conclusion: This did not happen. There's no truth to this."
Cook's remarks are surrounding weeks of speculation and denials that Apple had been the victim of a Chinese plot to embed spy chips in iCloud servers. Earlier in October, a Bloomberg report based on extensive investigation claimed that Apple, Amazon, and almost 30 other companies had been the victim of an espionage campaign in which rice-sized chips had been planted on motherboards made by Super Micro. Once delivered, the motherboards supposedly created a backdoor into infrastructure like Apple's iCloud.
Apple was quick to deny allegations, insisting that it had conducted a "massive, granular, and siloed investigation."
Amazon has likewise issued denials.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/19/tim-cook-lambastes-bloomberg-for-icloud-spy-chip-report-calls-for-retraction
