Six former eBay employees have been charged with conducting an extensive campaign to intimidate the editor and publisher of an online newsletter with threats and deliveries to their home, including live spiders and cockroaches, The Guardian reported.

“This was a determined, systematic effort by senior employees of a major company to destroy the lives of a couple in Natick all because they published content that company executives didn’t like. For a while they succeeded, psychologically devastating these victims for weeks as they desperately tried to figure out what was going on and stop it,” the Massachusetts US attorney, Andrew Lelling, told reporters.