Comment by pixl97

Corporations commonly hide criminal activity in order to save face.

In the oil industry there is a portion called land management where the portions of oil and gas from wells can be split across a large number of entities. This can lead to numerous complexities that open up opportunities for fraud/theft in division of the profits. Quite often it is easier for the corporation to cover up that this occurred and pay off the person never to talk under NDA about it rather than have to have their customers find out and potentially take millions in losses.

Computer related hacks are very similar. Quite often these are covered up and never disclosed unless the information shows up in public at some point.