Saturday, October 20, 2018

Another US intel chief casts doubt on Chinese spy chip story

On Thursday, US director of national intelligence Dan Coats told Cyberscoop that he has yet see any evidence to corroborate the claims that Chinese spies compromised critical US tech infrastructure following a report by Bloomberg earlier this month.

“We’ve seen no evidence of [Chinese hardware manipulation],” Coats said, “but we’re not taking anything for granted.”

An earlier Bloomberg report claimed that Chinese spies had inserted tiny malicious chips into Supermicro servers that were subsequently purchased by dozens of Silicon Valley’s most prominent tech companies, including Apple and Amazon. The reported cited multiple unnamed sources from US intelligence services as well as former employees from both companies.

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