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Bank cautions customers against using Samsung fingerprint reader

South Korea's KaKao Bank has told customers to switch off the fingerprint recognition option on Samsung Galaxy S10 phones because a security flaw lets unregistered prints unlock the handsets.

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Bank cautions customers against using Samsung fingerprint reader

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Samsung has acknowledged the problem and says it will soon issue a software patch to fix it.

The fingerprint sensor issue was uncovered by a British woman whose husband found he could unlock her phone using his thumbprint if he added a cheap screen protector to the device.

Digital-only bank KaKao has advised customers to switch to the phone's facial recognition option or a PIN when logging in to its service.

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Hitesh Thakkar

Hitesh Thakkar Technology Evangelist (Financial Technology) at SME - Fintech startups (APAC and Africa)

Samsung can hire some of those Black hat hackers to perform testings :) Entire sequence looked like hollywood film.

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