[cmiles74]

I'm not interested in giving the benefit of the doubt to a C-suite executive who cashes out about a week after the company suffers one of the most newsworthy data breaches in recent history. To my mind, they are in exactly the right position to know about this sort of thing.

For sure, an investigation will be forthcoming and, in this country, one is innocent until proven guilty. But it seems, in my opinion, exceedingly likely that we'll find an email or text or some bit of ephemera notifying these people of the breach.

If not, well, I will eat my hat.

[conductr]

Have you worked at a BigCo or know what it's like to be in senior leadership? I would not be surprised in the least if this guy had no clue about the hack. These organizations are huge. People are actually very tight lipped when these things happen. You are/should be told not to speak about it even with your peers.

I also wouldn't be surprised if he did know, but just wanted to emphasize these BigCo org charts tend to be insanely big and complicated. At the senior levels you may not talk to or see your boss for weeks; especially when some big shit like this is being uncovered. So totally possible he knew nothing.