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eBay前安保人员骚扰批评人士,被指手段肮脏

eBay前安保人员骚扰批评人士,被指手段肮脏

Aaron Pressman 2020-06-22
涉案人员为了掩盖证据,开始删除信息及社交媒体账户,并清理了骚扰活动中所用的手机。

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为了骚扰批评eBay的博客博主,血腥的猪脸面具、蜘蛛和一次性电话都成了6名eBay前安保人员手中的得力工具,而他们使用过的肮脏伎俩远不止此。

联邦检察官透露,eBay的前任安保高级总监詹姆斯•鲍尔与前任全球弹性总监大卫•哈维尔直接参与领导了上述骚扰活动。

6月15日,在波士顿联邦法院的指控中概述了这起为期1个月的骚扰事件。博客eCommerce Bytes的博主——马萨诸塞州内蒂克的伊娜•斯坦恩与大卫•斯坦恩夫妇是这次骚扰活动的受害人。针对他们的骚扰活动还包括通过推特(Twitter)发送威胁消息、冒充他们在夜间点披萨外卖,以及寄送活体昆虫和色情制品等。

去年9月,eBay解雇了这两名安全工作负责人以及另外四名涉事员工。据检察官称,eBay的时任首席执行官德文•温尼格(去年9月突然离职)曾经向其下属抱怨说,博客eCommerce Bytes有时会发布针对eBay的批评言论,随后便有了该骚扰计划。eBay在6月15日表示,虽然骚扰活动并非来自温尼格的授权,但其有关该博客的“不当言辞”确是导致他“离职的诸多因素之一”。

以下是检察官所列指控中最令人震惊的5项:

“给她点颜色看看”

这个看起来并不起眼的博客吸引了包括首席执行官在内的整个eBay高管团队的密切关注。去年4月,高管团队的一名成员发现该博客发表了一篇有关温尼格薪水的文章,随即给温尼格发信息写道:“我们要给她点颜色看看。”几天后,《华尔街日报》上刊登的一篇文章也惹恼了温尼格,他给这位下属回信息:“搞定(这个博主)后把《日报》也给我干掉。”数周之后,又有一篇博文让温尼格怒不可揭,气急败坏的温尼格在给下属的信息中写道:“干掉她。”正是这条信息让温尼格的高管下属开始寻找解决方案,以求平息上司的怒火。2019年8月,在看到博客上新发布的有关eBay的负面文章后,温尼格给这名下属发信息说:“如果你还想干掉她的话……就现在。”温尼格的这位下属将部分相关信息转发给了鲍尔。

来自好莱坞的灵感

据称,当月鲍尔便开始与eBay的其他安全人员商讨如何反制该博主。他给自己的团队看了电影《反斗高材生》(Johnny Be Good,1988年)中的片段,片中人物通过预约上门服务来骚扰足球教练,比如:比萨、大象、男性脱衣舞演员和灭虫师。除此之外,他还播放了《谎言之躯》(Body of Lies)中的电影人物伪造的虚假恐怖活动,以及《单身男子俱乐部》(Old School)里的电影人物出现在房屋内并高呼“今天我要大搞特搞一番”的片段。

猪脸面具和活蜘蛛

检察官称,在鲍尔的指挥下,其他eBay员工开始了骚扰活动,为了在网络下单时隐匿自己的踪迹,他们在当地超市购买了预付费电话卡和一次性手机,同时还使用了虚拟专用网络和匿名邮箱。他们先是给这对夫妇寄了一个血腥的万圣节猪脸面具和一本名为《悲伤日记:丧偶后的生活》(Grief Diaries: Surviving the Loss of a Spouse)的书,接着是一个装有苍蝇幼虫、活蜘蛛和蟑螂的包裹。鲍尔的手下还以这对夫妇的名义给他们的邻居寄了一包色情制品。

虚构“情色派对”

法院文件显示,鲍尔最终决定派哈维尔等人去趟波士顿。他先是把高管对该博客抱怨的截图发给了哈维尔,然后又在信息中写道:“读完赶紧删掉,不要存在手机里,不然我们都得被开除。”

波士顿之行后,骚扰活动便开始升级。哈维尔一伙为这对夫妇点的“高价深夜比萨”,可以说是对他们精神和经济的双重打击。8月18日,骚扰团队在Craigslist上编造了这对夫妇举行派对的消息,还附上了地址,信息这样写道:“欢迎随时来玩,无论早晚,敲门、按门铃均可,派对将于晚上10点开始,欢迎单身男女,也欢迎伴侣同行,今夜无眠。”为了让陌生人突然出现在这对夫妇家里,他们还冒充这对夫妇发布了许多其他虚假信息。比如说这对夫妇正在出售自己的全部财产。

毁踪灭迹

据称,鲍尔等人还捏造文件线索,暗示这对夫妇骚扰eBay高管。在当地警探开始发现骚扰事件与eBay管理层之间的联系时,鲍尔派出了布莱恩•吉尔伯特与相关警察会面,吉尔伯特曾在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉担任警官,当时正在eBay的安全团队工作。投诉内容显示,吉尔伯特对警察撒了谎,声称eBay管理层对骚扰活动一无所知。

随着调查的不断深入,联邦调查局和eBay法务部门也介入到了这起案件中,涉案人员为了掩盖证据,开始删除信息及社交媒体账户,并清理了骚扰活动中所用的手机。

译者:Feb

为了骚扰批评eBay的博客博主,血腥的猪脸面具、蜘蛛和一次性电话都成了6名eBay前安保人员手中的得力工具,而他们使用过的肮脏伎俩远不止此。

联邦检察官透露,eBay的前任安保高级总监詹姆斯•鲍尔与前任全球弹性总监大卫•哈维尔直接参与领导了上述骚扰活动。

6月15日,在波士顿联邦法院的指控中概述了这起为期1个月的骚扰事件。博客eCommerce Bytes的博主——马萨诸塞州内蒂克的伊娜•斯坦恩与大卫•斯坦恩夫妇是这次骚扰活动的受害人。针对他们的骚扰活动还包括通过推特(Twitter)发送威胁消息、冒充他们在夜间点披萨外卖,以及寄送活体昆虫和色情制品等。

去年9月,eBay解雇了这两名安全工作负责人以及另外四名涉事员工。据检察官称,eBay的时任首席执行官德文•温尼格(去年9月突然离职)曾经向其下属抱怨说,博客eCommerce Bytes有时会发布针对eBay的批评言论,随后便有了该骚扰计划。eBay在6月15日表示,虽然骚扰活动并非来自温尼格的授权,但其有关该博客的“不当言辞”确是导致他“离职的诸多因素之一”。

以下是检察官所列指控中最令人震惊的5项:

“给她点颜色看看”

这个看起来并不起眼的博客吸引了包括首席执行官在内的整个eBay高管团队的密切关注。去年4月,高管团队的一名成员发现该博客发表了一篇有关温尼格薪水的文章,随即给温尼格发信息写道:“我们要给她点颜色看看。”几天后,《华尔街日报》上刊登的一篇文章也惹恼了温尼格,他给这位下属回信息:“搞定(这个博主)后把《日报》也给我干掉。”数周之后,又有一篇博文让温尼格怒不可揭,气急败坏的温尼格在给下属的信息中写道:“干掉她。”正是这条信息让温尼格的高管下属开始寻找解决方案,以求平息上司的怒火。2019年8月,在看到博客上新发布的有关eBay的负面文章后,温尼格给这名下属发信息说:“如果你还想干掉她的话……就现在。”温尼格的这位下属将部分相关信息转发给了鲍尔。

来自好莱坞的灵感

据称,当月鲍尔便开始与eBay的其他安全人员商讨如何反制该博主。他给自己的团队看了电影《反斗高材生》(Johnny Be Good,1988年)中的片段,片中人物通过预约上门服务来骚扰足球教练,比如:比萨、大象、男性脱衣舞演员和灭虫师。除此之外,他还播放了《谎言之躯》(Body of Lies)中的电影人物伪造的虚假恐怖活动,以及《单身男子俱乐部》(Old School)里的电影人物出现在房屋内并高呼“今天我要大搞特搞一番”的片段。

猪脸面具和活蜘蛛

检察官称,在鲍尔的指挥下,其他eBay员工开始了骚扰活动,为了在网络下单时隐匿自己的踪迹,他们在当地超市购买了预付费电话卡和一次性手机,同时还使用了虚拟专用网络和匿名邮箱。他们先是给这对夫妇寄了一个血腥的万圣节猪脸面具和一本名为《悲伤日记:丧偶后的生活》(Grief Diaries: Surviving the Loss of a Spouse)的书,接着是一个装有苍蝇幼虫、活蜘蛛和蟑螂的包裹。鲍尔的手下还以这对夫妇的名义给他们的邻居寄了一包色情制品。

虚构“情色派对”

法院文件显示,鲍尔最终决定派哈维尔等人去趟波士顿。他先是把高管对该博客抱怨的截图发给了哈维尔,然后又在信息中写道:“读完赶紧删掉,不要存在手机里,不然我们都得被开除。”

波士顿之行后,骚扰活动便开始升级。哈维尔一伙为这对夫妇点的“高价深夜比萨”,可以说是对他们精神和经济的双重打击。8月18日,骚扰团队在Craigslist上编造了这对夫妇举行派对的消息,还附上了地址,信息这样写道:“欢迎随时来玩,无论早晚,敲门、按门铃均可,派对将于晚上10点开始,欢迎单身男女,也欢迎伴侣同行,今夜无眠。”为了让陌生人突然出现在这对夫妇家里,他们还冒充这对夫妇发布了许多其他虚假信息。比如说这对夫妇正在出售自己的全部财产。

毁踪灭迹

据称,鲍尔等人还捏造文件线索,暗示这对夫妇骚扰eBay高管。在当地警探开始发现骚扰事件与eBay管理层之间的联系时,鲍尔派出了布莱恩•吉尔伯特与相关警察会面,吉尔伯特曾在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉担任警官,当时正在eBay的安全团队工作。投诉内容显示,吉尔伯特对警察撒了谎,声称eBay管理层对骚扰活动一无所知。

随着调查的不断深入,联邦调查局和eBay法务部门也介入到了这起案件中,涉案人员为了掩盖证据,开始删除信息及社交媒体账户,并清理了骚扰活动中所用的手机。

译者:Feb

A bloody pig mask, spiders, and burner phones. These are just some of the dirty tricks allegedly used by six former eBay security officials in a harassment campaign against the publishers of a blog focused on the company.

According to federal prosecutors, the effort was led by James Baugh, eBay's former senior director of safety and security, and David Harville, former director of global resiliency.

The month long harassment campaign, outlined in charges on June 15 in a Boston federal court, allegedly focused on a couple in Natick, Mass., who publish a blog called eCommerce Bytes. The campaign against Ina and David Steiner included tactics ranging from threatening Twitter messages and fake late-night pizza deliveries to packages of live insects and pornography.

In September, the company fired the two officials and four others also charged in the plot. The plan, according to prosecutors, was set in motion after eBay's then-CEO, Devin Wenig, who left the company suddenly in September, complained to his subordinates about the blog's sometimes critical coverage. The company said on June 15 that while Wenig did not authorize the harassment campaign, his "inappropriate communications" regarding the blog were among "a number of considerations leading to his departure from the company."

Here are five of the most shocking allegations outlined by federal prosecutors:

“We are going to crush this lady”

The seemingly small blog was closely read by eBay's top management from the CEO on down. When a member of Wenig's executive team saw a story about Wenig's salary in the blog last April, the person texted Wenig, "We are going to crush this lady." A few days later, when a Wall Street Journal story annoyed Wenig, he texted back, "Fuck them. The journal is next on the list after [the blog's author].” And a few weeks later, another story on the blog prompted Wenig to text his subordinate, "Take her down." That prompted the executive, who is not named in the complaint, to begin looking for ways to address Wenig's grievances. In August 2019, after another negative story, Wenig texted, "If you are ever going to take her down…now is the time." Wenig's subordinate passed some of the messages on to Baugh.

Inspired by Hollywood

That month, Baugh is said to have begun holding meetings with other eBay security staff to craft a response to the blog. He showed his team a clip from the 1988 movie Johnny Be Good of characters harassing their football coach by sending pizzas, an elephant, a male stripper, and an exterminator. He also showed a segments of the movie Body of Lies in which a character creates a fake terrorist plot and a bit from Old School when a character turns up at a house and declares, "I'm here for the gang bang."

A bloody pig mask and live spiders

At Baugh's direction, other eBay employees began the harassment campaign using prepaid debit cards purchased at a local supermarket and burner cell phones to make online orders from anonymous email accounts over virtual private networking software to hide their tracks, prosecutors said. They first sent the couple a Halloween mask featuring a bloody pig face and a book titled Grief Diaries: Surviving the Loss of a Spouse. Then came packages containing fly larvae, live spiders, and cockroaches. The eBayers also sent a package of pornography to a neighbor but with the couples' names.

Fake swingers party

Baugh eventually dispatched Harville to lead a trip with others to Boston, the court filing said. After sending a screenshot of top executives' complaints about the blog, he wrote to Harville, "Once you read it delete this entire thread and DONT SAVE TO YOUR PHONE or we will all get fired.”

From Boston, the campaign escalated to sending expensive late-night pizza delivery orders to the couples' house to wake them with demands for cash. On Aug. 18 the group posted on Craigslist that the couple was hosting a party, gave their home address, and wrote, "Come knock on the door/ring the doorbell anytime of day or night. block parties will start about 10 PM but will go late. Singles/couples swingers OK." Other fake online posts said the couple were selling all their possessions, prompting strangers to show up at the house unannounced.

Covering their tracks

Baugh and others also allegedly created a false paper trail implicating the couple in harassing eBay executives. As local police detectives began uncovering the connection between the harassment and eBay officials, Baugh sent Brian Gilbert, a former police captain in Santa Clara, Calif., who was working on eBay's security team, to meet with the police. Gilbert lied to police, according to the complaint, claiming eBay officials had no knowledge about the harassment campaign.

As the investigation grew, drawing in the FBI and eBay's legal department, the involved officials began hiding evidence by deleting messages and social media accounts and erasing phones used in the campaign.

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