Even if you manage to end up as root in a shell on the host OS, the data you're interested in is going to be encrypted at rest, probably with keys that aren't o

Even if you manage to end up as root in a shell on the host OS, the data you're interested in is going to be encrypted at rest, probably with keys that aren't on the same machine, and your access to the machine is going to have been logged somewhere. Access to the underlying infrastructure for the data persistence layer is also presumably granted to a tiny fraction of engineers. Only the relevant teams would need it, and even then not all of them.