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What was the upside of lying here? Seems like getting hacked is pretty common these days and I'm not surprised at all if some product I'm using tells me that they leaked my PII.

Why not just reveal the breach? Why risk going to jail just to avoid looking bad in your job? I don't think they would have even let him go because of this.

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You know he was pulling down big $$'s and he is very high profile- with a breach like that it most likely would have put his job at jeopardy, not to mention its not going to look good on a resume.

Could be he thought that, but you know what looks better on the CV than a clean slate? A well-handled incident.

My money is on heavy peer pressure on this one.

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