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https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstalking/

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eBay of Pigs cyberinvasion

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Former eBay director of global resiliency David Harville, 48, of New York City, was arrested Monday on the same charges

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Why would someone in a senior mgmt role in a major web company get involved in attacking specific customers. It's a weird job area (global resiliency) so I don't fully understand the scope of someone in charge of this area. Perhaps it involved company online reputation but I would think that would involve mitigating unfair online comments and not mitigating the people themselves.

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  On 6/15/2020 at 4:37 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Why would someone in a senior mgmt role in a major web company get involved in attacking specific customers. It's a weird job area (global resiliency) so I don't fully understand the scope of someone in charge of this area. Perhaps it involved company online reputation but I would think that would involve mitigating unfair online comments and not mitigating the people themselves.

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Very strange indeed.

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  On 6/15/2020 at 4:37 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Why would someone in a senior mgmt role in a major web company get involved in attacking specific customers. It's a weird job area (global resiliency) so I don't fully understand the scope of someone in charge of this area. Perhaps it involved company online reputation but I would think that would involve mitigating unfair online comments and not mitigating the people themselves.

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I did the ebay thing for several years as a side-gig back  around 15 years ago or so.  Like crash Davis said, they are a massive company, and I read plenty of those kinds of newsletters (you can make more money from telling people how to make money on ebay, than you can selling on ebay).  Granted, that audience is probably buying and selling a lot more than your typical eBayer, but still, their readership is probably not that high.  Plus, here in 2020, there's probably bloggers/YouTubers who have a larger audience.

That's an odd-as-hell fixation.

And some of those mentioned probably had really good salaries and job security.

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  On 6/15/2020 at 4:41 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

That’s going to be a rather large settlement. Crazy story. 

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Indeed. Am I crazy thinking this is a 8 figure settlement? I mean shit , we're talking about a $30 billion dollar market cap company doing some really shady shit. I doubt Ebay wants to deal with the PR fallout if the civil case details spill out into the press. Probably better to just stroke a check and be done with it. 

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  On 6/16/2020 at 6:41 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

So ebay needs a Global Intelligence Center with a Special Operations Team?  That really makes me want to give up all of my private information to google, facetime, and the like.  They must have their own fucking army and rendition center

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They pretty much all do have something like this.  eBay does plenty of targeted advertising out the ass.

I would assume that some of what these people would normally be covering would be the organized fraud stuff based on the organizational names, rather than harassing somebody pumping out a fucking newsletter for other people to think they are going to get rich.

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This is fucking unreal...

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Although federal authorities are not charging the two executives, court documents detail text messages and emails exchanged between the higher-ups regarding the company critics prior to and during the cyberstalking campaign. According to court documents, Executive 2 — which Bloomberg says is Wymer, the ex-head of communications — sent a text message to Executive 1 — identified as ex-CEO Wenig — telling him, "We are going to crush this lady." Later on Executive 1 sent Executive 2 a text saying, "Take her down."

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Neither Wymer nor Wenig are still with eBay. Wymer only served as eBay's PR chief for about nine months in 2019. Wenig announced he was stepping down from the CEO position in September 2019, and cited conflict with eBay's board of directors.

In a statement published to its website Monday, eBay said it became aware of the law enforcement investigation in August 2019 and cooperated fully. EBay says it conducted its own internal investigation, which found "no evidence" that Wenig played a role in the matter. 

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A number of considerations led to the surprise departure of former eBay  (EBAY) - CEO Devin Wenig, among them "inappropriate" conduct uncovered in an investigation of cyberstalking incidents involving senior employees, eBay said on Monday.  

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Former eBay CEO Devin Wenig walked away with a $57 million package last year, according to a company filing with the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission). Of that, $780,769 was salary and $40 million was classified as "other compensation."

Wenig left the company abruptly on September 24 under ambiguous circumstances. At the time, eBay Chairman of the Board Thomas Tierney cited "a number of considerations," and Wenig said in a Tweet he was "not on the same page" as the Board. (Tierney himself will be stepping down from the eBay Board in June where he's served as Director since 2003 and Chairman since 2015.)

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Corporate America has lost its fucking mind. This douche was CEO for 4 years, investigations into the matter showed inappropriate conduct, and they still let him walk with $57 million dollars. The entire board should be removed for approving that shit. 

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It isn't called a Golden Parachute for nothing. C-level positions are like NFL coaching positions. Failed CEOs find other C-level gigs at other companies with no other qualification than just having had the C-level title. Once you have a C-level title, you are guaranteed $Millions. Everyone assumes that you are smart and talented to have attained that title. Shitty fired NFL coaches find themselves on NFL staffs year after year after year.

 

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  On 6/17/2020 at 7:16 PM, crash_davis said:

It isn't called a Golden Parachute for nothing. C-level positions are like NFL coaching positions. Failed CEOs find other C-level gigs at other companies with no other qualification than just having had the C-level title. Once you have a C-level title, you are guaranteed $Millions. Everyone assumes that you are smart and talented to have attained that title. Shitty fired NFL coaches find themselves on NFL staffs year after year after year.

 

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Yeah I get that, but this is slightly different than just incompetence. After being alerted by authorities in August, they start an internal investigation which turns up  "inappropriate conduct" and they part ways in September. $57 million is significant enough that most companies wouldn't part with it unless they feel that the alternative is worse.In this case it seems more like hush money. Will be interesting to see what else comes of this, but that board of directors should catch some heat for that. Should, but probably won't. 

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  On 6/17/2020 at 8:45 PM, Blotto said:

Yeah I get that, but this is slightly different than just incompetence. After being alerted by authorities in August, they start an internal investigation which turns up  "inappropriate conduct" and they part ways in September. $57 million is significant enough that most companies wouldn't part with it unless they feel that the alternative is worse.In this case it seems more like hush money. Will be interesting to see what else comes of this, but that board of directors should catch some heat for that. Should, but probably won't. 

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Agreed but it's the wolves watching over other wolves. The BoD are themselves a bunch of CEOs. It's a nice club to get into.

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