This is something that you should read. The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies is a story from Bloomberg Businessweek about SuperMicro server motherboards being hacked by the Chinese military, adding a hardware device to the board enabling access to the server. The hardware device was designed to look like an innocuous component, and the compromised servers may have gone to companies like Apple and Amazon, into their AWS cloud.
If you're looking for more analysis, here's a Techcrunch post on the article.
Needless to say, these are worth your time to read.
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