⁍ Two former eBay Inc workers pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in an extensive cyberstalking campaign against a Massachusetts couple.


⁍ Stephanie Popp and Veronica Zea along with other employees harassed the couple through Twitter and sent them disturbing packages like a bloody Halloween pig mask.


⁍ Prosecutors plan to recommend prison terms of 41 months for Popp, 33, and 30 months for Zea, 26, when they are later sentenced.


– Two former eBay employees have pleaded guilty to cyberstalking a Massachusetts couple whose online newsletter was seen as critical of the company, Reuters reports. Prosecutors say Stephanie Popp and Veronica Zea harassed the couple through Twitter and sent them disturbing packages like a bloody Halloween pig mask. Prosecutors plan to recommend prison terms of 41 months for Popp, 33, and 30 months for Zea, 26, when they are later sentenced. They are among seven defendants, including onetime eBay security executives James Baugh and David Harville, who prosecutors said targeted the couple with threatening messages and unwanted deliveries, including a box of live cockroaches and a funeral wreath. Prosecutors said they also sent pornography in the couple’s name to neighbors and conducted covert surveillance in a bid to terrorize the couple and deter them from criticizing eBay. They did so after two top executives expressed frustration with the newsletter, including former Chief Executive Devin Wenig. Prosecutors said Wenig texted another executive after the newsletter editor published an article about eBay, saying it was time to ‘take her down.’ Wenig has not been charged and has denied knowing about the scheme.



Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ebay-cyberstalking/former-ebay-workers-plead-guilty-to-cyberstalking-campaign-against-couple-idUSKBN26T3FZ