Kersten Zhang in the Journal's Beijing bureau says one company making clothes for Ralph Lauren is Hong Kong-based Luen Thai, which has operations in southern China.
In the most recent incident, the Journal was notified by the FBI of a potential breach in the middle of last year, when the FBI came across data that apparently had come from the computer network in the Journal's Beijing bureau, people familiar with the incident said.
China released data Thursday showing a smaller-than-expected trade surplus in September, which will likely take some pressure off Beijing to let the yuan rise faster, the Wall Street Journal reported from Shanghai Thursday.