Super Micro sends a letter to customers with the results of a third-party security audit.
In a letter sent out today to its customers, hardware vendor Super Micro Computer said that a security audit performed by a third-party investigations firm found no evidence that Supermicro server motherboards contained any type of backdoor chip.
The company sent out this letter after earlier this year a Bloomberg report claimed that some Supermicro motherboards contained a malicious chip implant inserted on its Chinese assembly lines by Chinese spies. The US news outlet then claimed that some of these servers made it into the networks of government agencies and private companies, such as Apple and Amazon’s AWS.
Super Micro denied all allegations from the get-go, in a press release and in a subsequent customer letter, but also promised to carry out a thorough security audit.
