Six former eBay employees accused of stalking by FBI - What we know

The FBI has charged six former eBay employees with cyberstalking. CNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports more details.

Federal prosecutors on Monday charged six former eBay employees with cyberstalking, alleging the defendants attempted to “stifle” a couple who published an online newsletter about e-commerce companies that was sometimes critical of eBay.

According to a Justice Department affidavit, the former eBay employees used all sorts of tactics to try to silence the couple. They sent crude objects, such as a fetal pig, and flew to the couple’s hometown in an effort to plant a GPS tracker on their car. The defendants also operated several fake Twitter accounts that sent a barrage of nasty messages.

“Among other things, several of the defendants ordered anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home, including a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath, a book on surviving the loss of a spouse and pornography – the last of these addressed to the newsletter’s publisher but sent to his neighbors’ homes,” the Department of Justice said Monday.

Defendants also posted on Craigslist that the couple were looking for sexual partners, according to the Justice Department’s criminal complaint.

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