Following the discovery by a UK user that any fingerprint could unlock their phone, Samsung has announced it will issue a software patch.
The flaw was first made public earlier this week when Lisa Neilson from Castleford told the Sun newspaper about her discovery that she could unlock her Samsung Galaxy S10 with any finger, including her husband’s. It seems that the hack became possible when she put a screen protector on as the fingerprint reader in the S10 is embedded in the screen. It looks like the reader was reading some kind of pattern on the screen protector rather than the finger pressing on it.
By Scott Bicheno
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