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More than two years after Bloomberg Businessweek published a widely disputed investigation claiming the Chinese government had secretly installed microchips on server motherboards produced by Supermicro that were used to spy on companies like Amazon and Apple, the outlet has published its follow-up, which doubles down on the initial report and expands the scope of the alleged espionage to a dizzying degree.
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Titled “The Big Hack,” the initial Businessweek cover story, published in October 2018 and authored by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, drew widespread criticism from other journalists and commentators, and was directly disputed by Apple, Amazon, and server manufacturer Supermicro. These allegedly compromised servers, the report claimed, were used by nearly 30 companies banks, government contractors, Amazon, and Apple among them giving China’s People’s Liberation Army a backdoor “into any network that included the altere