Most of the media coverage of a Bernie Sanders campaign aide accessing proprietary data from the Hillary Clinton campaign focused on the politics between the Democratic Party's presidential rivals. That is a battle that this audio blog will ignore.

What's addressed in this report are the ethics that confront IT security and other professionals associated with such a breach.

"It's a gray area as it is currently practiced in industry," says Purdue University Computer Science Professor Gene Spafford, executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. "We have a lot of people who, upon finding a problem, will attempt to investigate it on their own, rather than involving the custodians or owners (of the database)."

In this report (click on player beneath the above photo to listen), you'll hear:

Sanders explain his intolerance for accessing his rival's proprietary information; Josh Uretsky, the Sanders aide fired over the breach, defend his actions; and Spafford analyze the ethics involved in such breaches.

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