According to the article, your source, the activity took place over several years as did the accumulation of names. So information on the limited number of employees doing this was accumulated over several years. Microsoft said, ""The personal conduct of a tiny fraction of our 125,000 employees does not in any way represent our culture. No organisation is immune to the unfortunate situation when employees act unethically or illegally." Amazon says they have explicit policies against such things. The companies are not responsible for what a limited number of employees do. Probably a lot of people outside the companies are doing the same thing. It is not about these companies; it is about the behavior of indidivual people who are using company computers for their bad behavior. And this is probably going on in many big cities around the country.
I think the "story" is that they were using their company accounts to arrange the meetings. And its not exactly a single incident. It was quite a few of them. Even some high execs. Hard to imagine that none of them knew what the others were doing.
