> a Chinese super-spy managed to open up specific server that the juicy target was getting and solder some special chip onto the board ... That's pretty much i

> a Chinese super-spy managed to open up specific server that the juicy target was getting and solder some special chip onto the board ... That's pretty much it (if the story is not bullshit). That, or cooperation from Supermicro or whoever was their distributor to the target.