According to a report published by Bloomberg News, China implanted a tiny chip, the size of a grain of rice, on computer equipment manufactured for US companies and government agencies. The attack reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain. The micro chip was inserted on equipment manufactured in China for US based Super Micro Computer Inc., one of the world’s biggest suppliers of server motherboards.
Amazon discovered the tiny chips when it was about to acquire software firm Elemental, and conducted in 2015 a security assessment of equipment made for Elemental by Supermicro. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community.
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