Ebay Ordered to Pay $55.7m After Harassing Couple With Cockroaches and Cyberstalking

Ebay has been ordered to pay a $55.7m settlement to an American couple over a harassment campaign by company executives which included doxing, online threats and the delivery of live cockroaches to their home.  The orchestrated campaign, which lasted for two months in the summer of 2019, was waged against husband and w

2 min readJul 30, 2026 04:25 PM IST eBay’s headquarters in San Jose, California. The company and three former executives have agreed to pay $55.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a stalking campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) eBay and three former senior executives have agreed to pay $

The couple said the cyberstalking began with threatening direct messages on social media before turning into anonymous deliveries including live cockroaches and a funeral wreath.

The Steiners were sent things like cockroaches and a funeral wreath in the mail as part of a harassment campaign by former eBay employees.

eBay Inc. agreed to pay almost US$50 million to a Massachusetts couple who said former employees of the company targeted them with threats and bizarre anonymous deliveries — including live insects, a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween mask, according to settlement details released Tuesday.

The parties reported reaching a tentative settlement in February as the case was headed to trial, but they were unable to finalize it.

Ken Lucas, Visuals Unlimited, Inc. / Getty Images eBay will pay nearly $56 million to a Massachusetts couple who said the company tried to terrorize them into stopping their reporting with a campaign of threats, stalking, live cockroaches, and a bloody pig Halloween mask. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends more th

EBay, former executives to pay $56 million to couple sent cockroaches in harassment campaign  CNN

Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company.

David and Ina Steiner were targeted by former employees of the online giant in a terrifying stalking campaign.

David and Ina Steiner were targeted by former employees of the online giant in a terrifying stalking campaign.

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former company employees

eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.

The settlement resolves a lawsuit over former employees' stalking of a newsletter couple who covered eBay.

David and Ina Steiner, from Massachusetts, have received a huge payout from eBay after they told of being threatened and targeted in a campaign to "intimidate" them

EBay Agrees To Pay Nearly $50M To Couple Sent Cockroaches, Bloody Pig Mask  HuffPost

The couple reported experiencing cyberstalking, death threats, and in-person surveillance by former eBay workers

Bloggers David and Ina Steiner were stalked by eBay executives over their critical coverage of the company Ebay and three former top executives have agreed to pay $55.7m to resolve a lawsuit by a Massachusetts couple who fell victim ⁠to a bizarre stalking and ⁠harassment campaign carried out ​by several of its employee

eBays agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask  AP News

Couple received threatening deliveries including funeral wreath after criticising ecommerce retailer in blog