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eBay agreed to pay $55.7 million to a Massachusetts couple whose lives were upended by a coordinated harassment campaign orchestrated by former company employees, a scheme that included bloody masks, live insects, and physical surveillance. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends a civil lawsuit brought by Ina and David Steiner, who ran a small e-commerce trade […] The post eBay pays $55.7 million to settle with Massachusetts couple targeted in employee cyberstalking campaign appeared first on American Almanac .
eBay agreed to pay $55.7 million to a Massachusetts couple whose lives were upended by a coordinated harassment campaign orchestrated by former company employees, a scheme that included bloody masks, live insects, and physical surveillance. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends a civil lawsuit brought by Ina and David Steiner, who ran a small e-commerce trade newsletter called ECommerceBytes from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. Their critical coverage of eBay apparently so enraged company leadership that federal prosecutors say executives launched a systematic effort to intimidate and silence them. Seven former eBay employees were charged by the Department of Justice in 2020, and some went to prison. Under the terms CBS Boston…Open