I spent several years at a large multinational cloud provider that gave developers and QA access to production systems and customer PII. That all changed after

I spent several years at a large multinational cloud provider that gave developers and QA access to production systems and customer PII. That all changed after the company was bought by SAP and operations were integrated. I am amazed that engineers think this is acceptable. It is bad business practice, compromises security, and illegal in some jurisdictions.