Security News > 2022 > September > Ex-eBay execs jailed for cyberstalking web critics

Two now-former eBay executives who pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges this year have been sent down and fined tens of thousands of dollars.

James Baugh, ex-senior director of safety and security at the internet tat bazaar, was sentenced to nearly five years - 57 months - behind bars, plus two years of supervised release and fined $40,000 for harassing, both electronically and physically, Ina and David Steiner, who produce EcommerceBytes, a website and newsletter critical of eBay.

David Harville, eBay's former director of global resiliency, was sentenced to two years in prison plus two years supervised release, and fined $20,000 for his role in what prosecutors described as a harassment campaign directed at the Steiners.

eBay fired Baugh, Harville, and five co-defendants - also eBay staff - that year when news of the harassment campaign reached senior executives.

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There has been a flurry of activity in the case since its filing last year, including multiple attempts by eBay to have the case dismissed, and several requests for extending filing deadlines.

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