A Tencent team demonstrated how to break into smartphone fingerprint scanners in just 20 minutes
Are you sure you want to drink that glass of water? Because that glass will have your fingerprints all over it. And that, apparently, is enough to crack your smartphone.
Tencent Security's
X-Lab team demonstrated this at a hacking event in Shanghai by inviting members of the audience to touch a glass. Then the team's leader, Chen Yu, took out his phone, snapped a photo of the fingerprints, and ran it through their new app to extract accurate data. That was used to create a physical version of the fingerprints in just 20 minutes.