Unethical Behaviour in Data Breach Incident in Victoria State Government Organization

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Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Summary of the article:...................................................................................................................2
Key ethical issues:...........................................................................................................................3
Ethical solution:...............................................................................................................................4
Ethical decision-making process:....................................................................................................5
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Introduction:
The aim of this essay is to analyse the unethical incident of data breach in Victoria State
government organization. In this case, the unethical actions of the cyber hacker in the Victoria
State government organization has two different ethical aspects one is associated with the
government’s incapability to work effectively and secure the accounts of the employees and
another is the disloyalty of any employee for helping tin this data breach in the organisation. This
essay will discuss the incident of 22 December, 2018 detailed in the ABC News, published in 1 st
December, 2019 (ABC News, 2019). It will also discuss the key ethical issues, initiative of the
organization based on the ethics and morality and resolve this issue and best fitted moral
philosophies for this unethical behaviour.
Summary of the article:
The ABC News of Australia has published the incident of the breach of data security in
the Victoria government employees. This news covers the issues of unethical behaviour of a
third-party agency which has allegedly stolen the details of the government employees in the
Victorian region. This list had the work email, work phone numbers and job titles of the
employees. This incident may lead to have an intense and dangerous future effect. Due to this
data breaching process, the issues like increasing phishing, social engineering attempts and spam
via the work email address as well as telephonic numbers. This type of risks is associated with
the financial threats as the personal details of the employees can be accessed though the available
data.
This news published in the first January, 2019 details the incident of 22 December 2018
when the third party accessed the list after compromising the employees’ account. According to
the researcher named Suelette Dreyfus in this context has opined that this ind of data theft is not