Ethics and Professional Practice: Quora Data Breach 2018

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Ethics and Professional Practice: Quora Data Breach 2018
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Doing Ethics Technique for Ethical Analysis of the Case Study...........................................2
2.1 What is going on?.............................................................................................................2
2.2 What are the facts?...........................................................................................................2
2.3 What are the issues?.........................................................................................................3
2.4 Who is affected?...............................................................................................................4
2.5 What are the ethical issues and implications?..................................................................4
2.6 What can be done about it?..............................................................................................5
2.7 What are the options?.......................................................................................................6
2.8 Which option is the best and why?..................................................................................7
3. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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1. Introduction
Ethics could be referred to as the moralized philosophy, which involves
systemization, protecting as well as recommendation of few concepts for accurate and
inaccurate conduct. Ethical behaviour is important and significant to ensure that the
respective individual is ethical and is following ethics under every circumstance (Frank,
2013). In November 2018, the extremely popular question and answer website, Quora was
being breached and personal data of more than 100 million users were being hacked by
hackers and it is considered as one of the most vulnerable cyber attacks in past 6 months.
This following report summaries a brief description on ethical analysis for the case scenario
of Quora data breach. Doing Ethics Technique would be utilized in this report for completing
the analysis.
2. Doing Ethics Technique for Ethical Analysis of the Case Study
2.1 What is going on?
On 30th November, 2018, the most popular US based question and answer website, in
which questions are being asked and then answers are provided and edited by the Internet
users in form of opinions; was eventually hacked and more than 100 million users lost their
confidential data (Quora Data Breach. 2018). According to the CEO of Quora, this hacking or
exposing of data was being done and the computer systems and machines were being
compromised by a malicious third party. However, the organization noted that this incident
was eventually questionable to result in the identity theft since this particular web site does
not collect any kind of confidential information like social security number and credit cards
or bank details, although email addresses, contact numbers and names were hacked in the
process.