A mid-2016 security incident led to Apple purging its data centers of servers built by Supermicro, including returning recently purchased systems, according to a report by The Information. Malware-infected firmware was reportedly detected in an internal development environment for Apple's App Store, as well as some production servers handling queries through Apple's Siri service.
An Apple spokesperson denied there was a security incident. However, Supermicro's senior vice-president of technology, Tau Leng, told The Information that Apple had ended its relationship with Supermicro because of the compromised systems in the App Store development environment. Leng also confirmed Apple returned equipment that it had recently purchased. An anonymous source was cited as the source of the information regarding infected Siri servers.
[...] A source familiar with the case at Apple told Ars that the compromised firmware affected servers in Apple's design lab, and not active Siri servers. The firmware, according to the source, was downloaded directly from Supermicro's support siteāand that firmware is still hosted there.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @01:58AM
Replace every apple reference in there with walmart and you have described two of the largest companies in the world.
I have been saying this to people for years Apple is not a company to be trusted (my stories go back to the mid 90s). MS is good/'bad' at what they do but they learned at the hands of a true Sith master, Apple. The GUI wasnt the only thing MS copied.