The current and all-time view is that they are thieves - they were thieves while employed by X company and probably stole more than data and can't be trusted with shit.
That said, it's obvious there is a lack of security in web-based businesses in that people can have complete access to large elements of data - and the adult industry is not alone. Talk has been cheap re data protection.
A couple of months back I sat and watched a techie theif who supposed to be doing additional network installation - he elected to burn a few CD's for some reason which contained a large amount of gaming client data which would be worth a lot in the right hands. Obviously this was needed to install networks
(He was intercepted and dealt with - so no harm done)