It’s not clear to me why getting Apples for the executives is going to help anything. Was the breach due to an executive’s laptop??? Was my email address on someone’s personal machine?
My understanding is that the breach into their server occurred through Windows and they were concerned about company secrets being compromised at the upper management level in a similar manner through another Windows incursion, so they replaced the upper management computers and phones with Apple equipment which has a far less exposure profile.
Apparently, some don’t understand how these corporate ecosystems work in technology.
Of course, the executives did not carry around millions of credit card numbers and consumer email addresses on their laptops. BUT...
The laptops basically held the “keys” to such information on corporate servers and other data repositories.
The laptops served as a sort of keyring to get into the “vault”. So with the laptops compromised (or another aspect of interconnect running some version of Windows), the keys were then made available to the hackers to the bigger prize held in slightly more secure settings (though nothing is secure when you give out the keys).
If, as some are assuming in this case, that the gateway to the data breach was with executive laptops, then Apple hardware replacing the Windows-based hardware would indeed provide a slight security advantage. But as others have mentioned - no hardware or software will totally protect from stupidity or from abject criminals.