In a follow-up to an article it published last week (and included in the October 4 SRU) that China had infiltrated U.S. companies by planting a tiny chip in computer hardware during its manufacture, Bloomberg reports a major telecommunications company discovered the presence of the manipulated hardware and removed it in August. Bloomberg declined to identify the company, and AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all indicated they had not been affected. Still, Bloomberg notes that in the wake of its reporting on the attack, security experts have acknowledged that teams around the world, from large banks and cloud computing providers to small research labs and startups, are analyzing their servers and other hardware for modifications, a stark change from normal practices. Their findings won't necessarily be made public, since hardware manipulation is typically designed to access government and corporate secrets, rather than consumer data. Senior U.S. government officials, including DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FBI Director Christopher Wray, have both made comments that suggest inaccuracies in the original Bloomberg article. They both, however, underscored the heightened threats of foreign operatives trying to compromise computer technology and supply chain compromises. Bloomberg.