DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) – A Morgan County judge is warning the public about online scams after a hacker took over her Facebook account and used it to steal money from her friends.
Jennifer Howell, a longtime Morgan County circuit court judge, woke up one morning in early February to find herself locked out of her Facebook account. A new email address and phone number had been registered to the account — signs she had been hacked.
The hacker posed as Howell and posted about a family member with a terminal cancer diagnosis, using real images of a man in a hospital bed…