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Exclusive – New Touch ID hack allows hacker to unlock an iPhone by multiple fingerprints

Iranian group defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints. The chance that Touch ID will misread a finger is 1 in 50,000, this is because Touch ID is not designed to capture the fingerprint in strict mode. It scans the fingerprint on a very high-resolution (2400 dpi), to get and match the partial parts of an impression for faster unlocking. Group set up a mixed Fingerprint scan of 5-6 people for an iPhone 5S handset (as shown in the video), which allowed all of them to. unlock the locked device with their individual fingerprint.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/09/Apple-TouchID-fingerprint-scanner-hacking-unlock-iphone.html

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