BOSTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Two former eBay Inc (EBAY.O) security employees were sentenced to prison and home confinement on Tuesday for their roles in a cyberstalking campaign that targeted a Massachusetts couple whose online newsletter was viewed as critical of the e-commerce company.
Stephanie Popp, 34, was sentenced to one year in prison while Stephanie Stockwell, 28, was ordered to serve a year of home confinement for participating in an extensive campaign in 2019 that involved sending the couple cockroaches, fly larvae and a bloody Halloween pig mask.
They were sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston after pleading guilty in 2020 to cyberstalking-related charges and admitting they facilitated a scheme to intimidate the couple while at the Silicon Valley e-commerce company.
Defense lawyers had no immediate comment.
They are among seven former eBay workers who have admitted wrongdoing over a scheme that targeted David and Ina Steiner, a married couple in Natick, Massachusetts, who produce the newsletter EcommerceBytes. read more
Prosecutors said senior executives, including then-Chief Executive Officer Devin Wenig deemed the newsletter critical of eBay, in mid-2019, and a senior member of its security team, Jim Baugh, implemented a plan to harass and intimidate them.
Prosecutors said Popp, eBay's senior manager of global intelligence, that August sent Ina Steiner a series of anonymous Twitter messages criticizing the newsletter's coverage and at times...
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