In 2014, Intel Corp. discovered that an elite Chinese hacking group breached its network through a single server that downloaded malware from a supplier’s update site.

And in 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned multiple companies that Chinese operatives had concealed an extra chip loaded with backdoor code in one manufacturer's servers.

Each of these distinct attacks had two things in common: China and Super Micro Computer Inc., a computer hardware maker in San Jose, California. They shared one other trait; U.S. spymasters discovered the manipulations but kept them largely secret as they tried to counter each one and learn more about China’s capabilities.

Twenty-eight months later and Bloomberg is back with a follow-up report titled "The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier." This time the report expands on their original report with a much wider view of their investigation up to 2018, without new evidence.

In context with the streaming wars now in progress, perhaps Bloomberg is trying to get a documentary deal with Netflix or other major streamer, excluding Apple TV+ due to Apple vehemently denying the story in 2018.

There's been a lot of smoke, but no firings. Quite the opposite. It's been a year since Bloomberg Businessweek published an extensively debunked story claiming that companies including Apple and Amazon had been hacked. Yet since then, all of Bloomberg's few responses and actions have only doubled down on how this publication lacks credibility on the topic.

The story from 2018 claimed that many firms were compromised by how they had bought servers from a company called Super Micro. Secretly embedded in the motherboards of these servers were Chinese spy chips.