one hacking expert said it s like watching a unicorn jump over a rainbow. here s how it works. this involves servers. they were made by a company call elemental. the servers use the mother boards that were made by super micro. microboards are like traffic cops. they direct data in the right direction. so basically what authorities found according to bloomberg business week are these tiny micro chips that were inserted on to super micro mother boards. what these extra chips did, they provided an access point for hackers to get into the system. elemental servers are used by war ships and cia drones. the mother boards were used by apple. in the end, bloomberg business week said 36 companies were affected. shepard: and apple responded.