Security News > 2022 > May > Another ex-eBay exec admits cyberstalking web souk critics

Harville is the last of seven former eBay employees/contractors charged by the US Justice Department to have admitted participating in a 2019 cyberstalking campaign to silence Ina and David Steiner, who publish the web newsletter and website EcommerceBytes.

Last month, James Baugh, eBay's former senior director of global security, pleaded guilty to nine felony counts.

The former eBay employees/contractors are alleged to have sent the Steiners live insects, the severed head of a fetal pig, a funeral wreath, a pig's head mask, and a book about coping with the loss of a spouse, among other things.

The Steiners are pursuing a civil complaint [PDF] that was filed last July in Massachusetts, USA. They've named as defendants not only the seven former eBay employees who have pleaded guilty, but former executives not charged by the government, including Devin Wenig, former CEO of eBay, Steven Wymer, former SVP and chief communications officer of eBay, security contractor Progressive FORCE Concepts, LLC, and eBay itself.

Wenig reportedly resigned in September 2019, ostensibly over disagreements with the eBay board of directors, and Wymer was fired that same month in relation to eBay's internal investigation.

The Steiners's complaint contends that Wenig's employment "Was terminated by eBay" and it notes that he "Departed eBay with a $57m severance package."

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