Daniel Kritenbrink, the associate secretary of state for East Asia, was additionally hacked in the more extensive spying activity uncovered recently by Microsoft, the report said, refering to individuals acquainted with the matter.
Gotten some information about the revealed break of the two ambassadors' records, the State Division declined to give any subtleties and said its examination of the spying activity was progressing.
Before the WSJ report showed up, Kritenbrink was found out if he could preclude that his or his staff's messages were designated in the Microsoft hack.
"I can't remark on an examination that is in progress being led by the FBI, however no, I won't preclude it," Kritenbrink said.
Consumes and Kritenbrink go along with US Business Secretary Gina Raimondo as the main freely named survivors of the undercover work crusade, which incited an admonition by Washington's top representative to his Chinese partner.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs previously referred to the earlier allegations as "disinformation," but the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report.
Microsoft said last week that Chinese programmers misused one of its computerized keys and involved an imperfection in its code to take messages from US government organizations and different clients.
The organization didn't quickly return a message looking for input on the WSJ report.
The break has tossed Microsoft's security rehearses under a magnifying glass, with authorities and legislators approaching the Redmond, Washington-based organization to make its high degree of computerized examining, likewise called logging, accessible to every one of its clients for nothing.
Microsoft said in a proclamation late on Thursday that it was accepting the analysis.
Adam Hodge, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, stated without providing additional details that an intrusion into Microsoft's cloud security "affected unclassified systems."
"Authorities promptly reached Microsoft to find the source and weakness in their cloud administration," Hodge added.
A statement issued at the time by a spokesperson for the department stated that the State Department "detected anomalous activity" and "took immediate steps to secure our systems."