Review the TJX case. What are the ethical issues impacting the TJX case? What are the long term effects and how might this company win back trust?

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Chapter5: Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, And Sustainability
Section5.1: Ethics And Business Ethics Defined
Problem 1CC: What individual and organizational ethical issues can we expect to occur?
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Review the TJX case. What are the ethical issues impacting the TJX case? What are the long term effects and how might this company win back trust?

 

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After reviewing the detailed case study and overview of the events and its aftermath, relating to TJX which is a multi-national clothing brand which had their retail stores operational in United states, Canada and Europe, and despite making a significant investment in information technology and IT elements to operate their business, they suffered a malicious and undeniable data breach in the year of 2007, where the hackers stole over a 45 million worth of credit and debit assets (Credit Cards & Debit Cards) which was such a huge loss and thus becoming the largest Data breach of the time, there are 3 major ethical values that got compromised in this unfortunate event relating to data privacy namely:

  • Vulnerability
  • Harm avoidance
  • Trust Factor

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