Facebook hackers are stealing the identifies of our loved ones and wearing their faces

Former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart was already in a bad mood. He’d been dealing with a variety of aggravating family issues.

And then he got a Facebook friend request from Larry Stuckart. There was a time when a message from his dad, a deeply empathetic champion of the poor who profoundly shaped Ben’s worldview, would have been a blessing.

But Larry Stuckart died five years ago.

Ben told Facebook long ago his dad died, but it hadn’t mattered.

“Somebody hacked in and resurrected his account,” Stuckart says. “It was actually kind of fairly disturbing.”

Countless diatribes have been written about the damage

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