Apple’s CEO Wants a Retraction on This Story by Bloomberg

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is not at all pleased with an article that reported there were Chinese spy chips embedded in the company’s server equipment.

According to Buzzfeed, Cook said, “There’s no truth to this.”

A story about the Chinese spy chips had surfaced in Bloomberg Businessweek this month. Cook thinks the story should be retracted.

“I was involved in our response to this story from the beginning,” Cook said. “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.”

According to Cook, Bloomberg should “do that right thing and retract” the story.

“Apple has never found malicious chips in our servers,” Apple said earlier this month when it responded to the story. The company added, “Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organizations since Businessweek published its story, we are not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations.”

“Bloomberg Businessweek’s investigation is the result of more than a year of reporting, during which we conducted more than 100 interviews. Seventeen individual sources, including government officials and insiders at the companies, confirmed the manipulation of hardware and other elements of the attacks. We also published three companies’ full statements, as well as a statement from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We stand by our story and are confident in our reporting and sources,” the company said in a statement to CNBC.

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