eBay and three former executives agreed to pay $55.7 million to settle a cyberstalking lawsuit filed by journalists David and Ina Steiner of Massachusetts. The company's employees had conducted a bizarre harassment campaign including sending macabre items to the journalists' home.
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eBay and three former top executives agreed to pay $55.7 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner, who said company employees targeted them in a 2019 cyberstalking and harassment campaign after they published critical coverage of the e-commerce company in their EcommerceBytes newsletter [theguardian.com#1][thenationalnews.com#1][cnbc.com#1][bbc.co.
eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists’ home. https:// arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 26/07/ebay-former-execs-pay-56m-to-settle-bloody-pig-mask-harassment-case/?comments-page=1#comments
eBay and three former top executives agreed to pay $55.7 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by David and Ina Steiner, a Massachusetts couple who run the e-commerce publication EcommerceBytes and said they were targeted after critical coverage of the company [thenationalnews.com#1][theguardian.com#1][arstechnica.com#1][cnbc.com#1][nytimes.com#1]. The settlement resolves a case the Steiners fil