Quote:After reporting about malicious chips designed to be hardware backdoors being added on Supermicro's server motherboards by Chinese manufacturers, Bloomberg Businessweek reveals that the company's online update portal was also breached in 2015.

Today, Bloomberg Businessweek comes with another report stating that Supermicro was also the victim of a "software" hack in 2015 when their online update portal was breached.

Following the hack, Supermicro's customers downloaded network card firmware containing malicious code added by the actors behind the security breach to allow them to take over server communication traffic.