![]() ![]() ![]() Some of these messages posted the victims’ address and threatened to visit the victims at their home. The threatening Twitter messages were written as if they had been sent by eBay sellers who were unhappy with the victims’ coverage in the newsletter. The harassment also featured Craigslist posts inviting the public for sexual encounters at the victims’ home. The deliveries ordered to the victims’ home included a book on surviving the death of a spouse, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath and live insects. The campaign included sending anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home sending private Twitter messages and public tweets criticizing the newsletter’s content and threatening to visit the victims in Natick and traveling to Natick to surveil the victims and install a GPS tracking device on their car. The harassment campaign arose from communications between those executives and Baugh, who was eBay’s senior security employee.īaugh and his co-conspirators allegedly executed a three-part harassment campaign intended to intimidate the victims and to change the content of the newsletter’s reporting. Senior executives at eBay were frustrated with the newsletter’s tone and content, and with the tone and content of comments posted beneath the newsletter’s articles. for of their roles in publishing a newsletter that reported on issues of interest to eBay sellers. 23, 2020, Baugh and his co-conspirators at eBay agreed to engage in a harassment campaign targeting a husband and wife in Natick, Mass. Harville has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.Īccording to court documents, between approximately Aug. Gilbert, Popp, Zea and Stockwell are awaiting sentencing. Cooke was sentenced in July 2021 to 18 months in prison. Co-conspirators and former eBay employees Philip Cooke, Brian Gilbert, Stephanie Popp, Veronica Zea and Stephanie Stockwell previously pleaded guilty. In June 2020, Baugh was arrested and charged along with David Harville, eBay’s former Director of Global Resiliency. James Baugh, 47, of San Jose, Calif., eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety & Security, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit stalking through interstate travel and through facilities of interstate commerce, two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through facilities of interstate commerce, two counts of witness tampering and two counts of destruction, alteration and falsification of records in a federal investigation. ![]() executive pleaded guilty today in connection with his role in a cyberstalking campaign targeting the editor and publisher of a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company. ![]()
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