[HN Gopher] eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment cas...
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eBay agrees to $3M fine over couple's harassment case, civil suit
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Author : ilamont
Score : 56 points
Date : 2024-01-11 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| lulznews wrote:
| Anything less than jail time for all involved is a travesty.
| onion2k wrote:
| While that's a given, it won't stop companies hiring people and
| paying them sufficiently to make them accept a prison term as a
| part of the job. eBay needs to face _significant_ damages in
| order to drive home a disincentive for other corporations
| considering doing the same. It needs to be high enough that the
| share price takes a long term hit.
| fabiensanglard wrote:
| Looking forward the Netflix documentary about this one.
| rtaylorgarlock wrote:
| I find solace knowing that ego and hubris will always be a force
| inside those with the agency to do really dumb things. And what a
| story.
| neilv wrote:
| Top executives of a major tech company sending death threats,
| flying operatives out to the victims, stalking and tracking them,
| and conducting a dirty character assassination campaign.
|
| I've been using eBay since the '90s, mostly happily, so I'd
| prefer that it turn out _not_ to be an organized crime outfit,
| and the company not be seized like a criminal operation would.
|
| But $3M fine for getting caught playing KGB seems like zero
| deterrence to the next unhinged tech executive who has no sense
| of where to draw the line wrt evil. It's only a message to pay
| for smarter thugs.
| robotnikman wrote:
| Hopefully the ongoing civil suit gets more money out of them
| forward1 wrote:
| It will be a glorious pay day for all lawyers involved!
| notahacker wrote:
| > But $3M fine for getting caught playing KGB seems like zero
| deterrence to the next unhinged tech executive who has no sense
| of where to draw the line wrt evil. It's only a message to pay
| for smarter thugs.
|
| 3 of them went to jail which would seem like rather more of a
| deterrent to wannabe corporate capos than their former employer
| getting fined enough to put a dent in quarterly earnings
| fsckboy wrote:
| > _But $3M fine for getting caught playing KGB seems like zero
| deterrence to the next unhinged tech executive_
|
| there was also prison time. FTA:
|
| _Several of the executives and employees were arrested and
| convicted on federal charges. One executive, security head Jim
| Baugh, got nearly five years in prison. The company 's CEO at
| the time, Devin Wenig, was referenced, but not by name, in
| federal charging documents. He was never charged, but did lose
| his job. In addition to Baugh, former head of security, the
| convicted eBay minions are:_
|
| _David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, who was
| sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022; Stephanie
| Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, who was
| sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022; Philip Cooke,
| a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, who was
| sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home
| confinement in July 2021; Stephanie Stockwell and Veronica Zea,
| a former Manager of Global Intelligence and a contract
| intelligence analyst, respectively, who were each sentenced to
| one year in home confinement in October and November 2022.
| Brian Gilbert, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations,
| has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing._
| blackhaj7 wrote:
| Absolutely staggering
| justinzollars wrote:
| eBay cheated me out of over $5,000 because of fraud, they failed
| to honor any seller protections, and charged me $250 for the
| fraudulent transaction. I charged the money back, and they made
| several unauthorized withdraws from my bank account in an attempt
| to take that 250 back from me. They ignored repeated requests to
| delete my personal banking information on file. I worked with my
| bank, charged the money back (a second time) and followed up by
| closing my bank account (an merchant block wasn't sufficient
| because they only last 6 months).
|
| eBay is a deeply unethical company. This story doesn't surprise
| me
| post_break wrote:
| One of the few examples of gang stalking being real.
| forward1 wrote:
| Even more staggering than the offensive acts are the mind-
| numbingly stupid decisions to document everything via
| discoverable mediums. These people are really low IQ.
| 10000truths wrote:
| How does this sort of deranged psychopathy end up at the steering
| wheel of a $20B company?
| neilv wrote:
| This real story of dirty-tricks thugs stupid enough to get
| caught, and the "Silicon Valley" TV bit about Gavin Belson trying
| to get his people to kill a protestor
| ("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5pt1bvutQ")... made me wonder
| how often wealthy sociopaths, even in the US, are quietly having
| people problematic to them neutralized in a criminal way.
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