Amazon and Apple were among 30 companies targeted by Chinese spies through a tiny microchip.<br /><br />Chinese operatives reportedly inserted microchips into hardware supplied to US firm Supermicro. Supermicro is described as one of the world's biggest sellers of server motherboards.<br /><br />Supermicro's compromised motherboards were built into the servers of the US companies targeted. China's reported goal was to access these data centers and swipe confidential information. <br />
