eBay’s mysterious cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement

eBay is the big three will pay $55.7 million as part of the Massachusetts family’s crackdown on a mysterious harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as was previously reported by CNBC. The settlement will end a long legal saga that revealed how Former eBay executives sent live insectsA pig’s blood mask, funeral wreath, and other unusual items for David and Ina Steiner on their eBay listings.

The Steiners, who work EcommerceBytes News, it sued eBay and its former executives – including former CEO Devin Wenig – in 2021. he sued the company and its management to launch a concerted effort to “intimidate, threaten to kill, harass, intimidate, stalk and dissuade” the Steiners in an attempt to “disable” their reports related to eBay.

“As we’ve said before, the Steiners’ harassment by former eBay employees in 2019 was wrong, reprehensible and should not have happened,” eBay said. he says in his voice on his website. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms, the staff involved and hold them accountable for the wrongdoing of Ina and David Steiner.”

The $55.7 million settlement includes $46.15 million from eBay, $2 million from Wenig, $500,000 from former global SVP Wendy Jones, and $50,000 from former communications director Steve Wymer. eBay will also donate $6 million to nonprofit organizations.