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Pretty creepy stuff. I can't imagine what they could have written that made a giant like eBay feel so threatened.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/15/metro/six-former-ebay-employees-charged-federal-cyberstalking-case-targeting-natick-couple/#comment-106409040
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... know security folk that work at big corps like this are no more back ground checked then a lot of cops.
This is going to change some stuff in corp op sec world or should.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)it's behind a paywall.
Thanks
miyazaki
(2,251 posts)WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)That's really a horror story.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)nitpicker
(7,153 posts)(snip)
The third phase of the campaign allegedly involved covertly surveilling the victims in their home and community. According to the complaint, Harville and Zea registered for a software development conference to explain their trip to Boston on Aug. 15, 2019. Baugh, Harville, and Zea (and later Popp) allegedly drove to the victims home in Natick several times, with Harville and Baugh intending at one point to break into the victims garage and install a GPS tracking device on their car. As protection in the event they were stopped by local police, Baugh and Harville allegedly carried false documents purporting to show that they were investigating the victims as Persons of Interest who had threatened eBay executives. The victims spotted the surveillance, however, and notified the Natick police, who began to investigate. The police learned that Zea had rented one of the cars used by the defendants and reached out to eBay for assistance.
Aware that the police were investigating, the defendants allegedly sought to interfere with the investigation by lying to the police about eBays involvement while pretending to offer the companys assistance with the harassment, as well as by lying to eBays lawyers about their involvement. At one point, for example, Baugh, Gilbert, Popp, and Stockwell allegedly plotted to fabricate another eBay Person of Interest document that could be offered to the police as a lead on some of the harassing deliveries. As the police and eBays lawyers continued to investigate, the defendants allegedly deleted digital evidence that showed their involvement, further obstructing what had by then become a federal investigation.
(snip)
((I think that's why they're FORMER eBay people...))
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)mercuryblues
(14,543 posts)https://patch.com/massachusetts/natick/six-former-ebay-employees-charged-harassing-natick-couple
4 of them were in senior management.
JHB
(37,162 posts)"...intending at one point to break into the victims garage and install a GPS tracking device on their car."
Unless there's more on this elsewhere, I would guess that this part came out during discovery phase as part of the documents obtained. It may be that they prepped for it, cased the place, but never found the right time when "the coast was clear" for a break-in.
On edit: No house break-in, and were unsuccessful breaking into the car because it was locked. From the link in the OP:
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)https://www.wired.com/story/ebay-employees-charged-cyberstalking-harassment-campaign/
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)n/t
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Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)Still not justified, but a bit more understandable since they were not just a cranky customer, they apparently had a platform that might make a bigger difference than a single voice.
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