Ask HN: Did you replace your supermicro motherboards?

None of the claims in Bloomberg's recent series on Super Micro have been confirmed and many doubts have been raised about the quality of the reporting[3], including by Bloomberg's own sources[2][3]. The affected parties have all issued strong denials, including to Congress[4], and figures from US intelligence agencies, where Bloomberg's anonymous sources allegedly worked, have cast doubt on the story as well[5].

That said, supply chain attacks have always been an issue and it's entirely possible that Super Micro has been a victim at some point. However, this will also be true of virtually any other supplier.

[1] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1049687546945392640

[2] https://twitter.com/riskybusiness/status/1049429881031819264

[3] https://www.servethehome.com/yossi-appleboum-disagrees-bloom...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/apple-rebuff-bloomberg-let...

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/security-community-voicing-i...

I believe there is some source of truth to the Bloomberg article but it seems like its maybe not that factual.

I wouldn't worry, I think the hardware attack described was pretty specific to that hardware. I am assuming that different super micro hardware would require a different hardware attack.

If china can get into the super micro supply chain they can probably just nip down the road and do the same thing for hynx or asus or whoever. So even if its true you are going to have a hard time finding decent hardware that isn't made in china.

No, I didn't. I still have four Supermicro motherboards running and haven't changed them out at all.