"Bloomberg said that its sources were key to its decision to run the Chinese spy chip story, the site writing that ’17 people confirmed the manipulation of Supermicro’s hardware and other elements of the attacks.’

However, one of the named sources – a security researcher who seemingly backed the claims – has said that his comment was taken out of context, and he actually told the site that what it was describing to him “didn’t make sense” …"

1/17 ain't so bad, guy was just taken out of context. Happens all the time when a tech guy says something tech and a writer uses their imagination.

Long and short, either put or shut up time for Bloomberg, do you have a board altered by the Chinese to back up your claims or not.

With the amount of claimed implants there should be a ton of these floating around.