Senators demand answers from Super Micro on Chinese backdoor hack In a letter made public Tuesday, Sen. John Thune, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, asked executives from Super Micro, Cupertino-based Apple and Amazon.com to give him more information on the purported hack by Friday. Separately, senators Marco Rubio and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Super Micro CEO Charles Liang, asking for additional information by next Wednesday. Bloomberg spent months researching the story, which claimed Chinese spies had secretly installed microchips onto server motherboards sold by Super Micro. The microchips were designed to send simple commands to the server, opening up a digital backdoor to hackers. Source from bizjournals Here