{"id":1024417,"date":"2026-07-29T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024417"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:39:11","slug":"ebay-agrees-to-55-7-million-settlement-over-harassment-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/ebay-agrees-to-55-7-million-settlement-over-harassment-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"EBay agrees to $55.7 million settlement over harassment campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EBay and three former top executives have agreed to pay $55.7 million to resolve a lawsuit by a Massachusetts couple who fell victim to a bizarre stalking and harassment campaign carried out by several of its employees in retaliation for their coverage of the e-commerce company in a newsletter they publish. <\/p>\n<p>David and Ina Steiner announced the settlement late on Monday, bringing an end to a case they filed in 2021 in Boston federal court after several former eBay employees were prosecuted for targeting them in a cyber-stalking campaign \u200cthat involved sending \u2060the couple \u2060cockroaches, fly larvae and a bloody Halloween pig mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBay and three former top executives have agreed to pay $55.7 million to resolve a lawsuit by a Massachusetts couple who fell victim to a bizarre stalking and harassment campaign carried out by several of its employees in retaliation for their coverage of the e-commerce company in a newsletter they publish. David and Ina Steiner announced the settlement late on Monday, bringing an end to a case they filed in 2021 in Boston federal court after several former eBay employees were prosecuted for targeting them in a cyber-stalking campaign \u200cthat involved sending \u2060the couple \u2060cockroaches, fly larvae and a bloody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024439,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024417\/revisions\/1024439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}