Blast at PayPal forces evacuation

[amy]

I'm merging this topic with the other PayPal explosion topic.

[amy]

Bill Cobb's message:

***A Message from Bill Cobb: Explosion at eBay’s San Jose Campus*** 

November 01, 2006 | 08:59AM PST/PT


Last night at approximately 7:30 pm Pacific time, there was an explosion at eBay’s campus on the north side of San Jose, California. I’m relieved to report that nobody was injured and that eBay’s service was not affected. Fortunately, minimal damage was sustained to the one building impacted, and our eBay and PayPal teams are fully operational today.

We’re concerned, of course, about the cause of this incident, and needless to say, eBay is working closely with local and federal law enforcement agents in their investigation.

Sincerely,

Bill Cobb
President
eBay North America

[regic]

eBay spokesperson Hani Durzy said authorities have confirmed that Tuesday evening's explosion on the PayPal campus in San Jose, California, was not accidental. The device blew out a window, but there were no injuries, and all 45 employees were safely evacuated from the building.

Durzy said many employees had left early on Tuesday to take their children trick-or-treating. The explosion was reported at 7:34 in the evening Pacific time. The most important thing, Durzy said, is that no one was hurt. The next most important thing is that eBay is working with authorities who are conducting a detailed site inspection...

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m11/i02/s02

[cranky_hippie]

We're concerned, of course, about the cause of this incident, and needless to say, eBay is working closely with local and federal law enforcement agents in their investigation."

Too bad they didn't feel this way when all the hacking attempts were made on Iron Chick's Ebay account.  >

[xppman]

The FIRST thought from everybody was.
OMG some pissed of customer went nuts.

Now why would that be I wonder?  :