6 eBay Employees Accused of Harassing Journalists

A lawsuit has been filed against 6 former eBay employees, including eBay's former security director James Baugh and former global defense director David Harville, for harassing a journalist couple who criticized eBay. 

Names not disclosed journalist couple, was producing a newsletter focused on e-commerce online. The couple behind the highly-followed newsletter often criticized eBay in their posts. 

In the statement made by the representative of the FBI's Cyber ​​Crimes Division, the eBay employees who harassed the journalist couple of your actions details transferred. The six employees, who continued to message each other during their protests, started sending disturbing items to the journalist couple's house. Pornography materials, a box containing live cockroaches and spiders, a Halloween mask disguised as a bloody pig's head, funeral wreaths, books about moving on with life after the death of a spouse and a pig fetus were among the objects sent to the journalist couple.

Harassment of eBay employees towards journalist couple, to the couple's house It was not limited to sending things. The suspects went to the couple's house and walked around the house several times. At one point, they even planned to break into the home's garage and install a tracking system on the couple's car. However, this plan could not be realized due to the police standing guard in front of the couple's house. 

Some of the objects that the suspects sent to the journalist couple's house

Allegedly, the suspects, the couple in favor of eBay They came up with another plan to get people to write positive things and set up fake Twitter handles pretending to be eBay sellers impressed by the journalist couple's writings. The suspects, who went after the "harassers" with the police, realized after a while that the police were also suspicious of them.

After the incident about eBay employees harassing the journalist couple was reported in the press, eBay also filed a lawsuit. explanation He stated that they became aware of the incidents last August and that all employees involved in the incident were dismissed in September. 

Commenting on the subject eBay spokesperson, “eBay cannot tolerate such behavior. eBay would like to apologize to those affected by the incident for the actions they suffered. eBay employees are held to high standards of conduct and ethics and we will continue to take appropriate action to ensure these standards are met” he said. 

The most tragic part of the incident is Former CEO of eBay It alleges that David Wening encouraged the suspects. A text message between two suspicious executives raises suspicions on Wening. 

David Wening, last September from eBay left. However, eBay did not make a statement as to whether Wening's departure from the company was related to the harassment of journalists. The company said at the time of the former CEO's departure that "there were a number of issues that led to the departure."

The case regarding former eBay employees harassing two journalists is currently in judicial process. Two suspects were arrested on the alleged charges. We will learn how the court will continue and whether the other suspects will be punished by following the case in the coming days.