If the CEO of my ecommerce company had easy, unmonitored access to all our data, we would fail industry audits and not be allowed to take credit card transactions. Sure, they have access if they really need it, but it's logged and monitored, and if you use it too much there will be questions.

It's a joke that any of you assholes are defending this. This does not pass any sniff test.

Stop making excuses.