The Big Hack – How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate US Companies

This investigative article based on interviews with American government officials and corporates claims that Chinese spies attacked almost 30 US companies, including Amazon and Apple “by compromising America’s technology supply chain”. So how did China pull this off? It appears that China inserted a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, into the servers used by American corporates, by the CIA, by the US Department of Defense, the US Navy, both Houses of Congress…the list is long and growing as the probe into the matter is still open.

Once you have read the piece, you might want to sit back and ponder at the safety of India’s corporate and government servers and, more generally, at the sheer amount of control that the Chinese can exert on our hardware – from our phones to our servers to our telecom equipment.