LONDON: Someone has figured out how to use photos and commercially available software to break through an iPhone 6’s fingerprint sensor, known as Touch ID. Now Your fingerprint can not safe your iPhone.
Jan Krissler, a German hacker who also goes by the alias Starbug, demonstrated the hack at the annual Chaos Computer Club convention (something you may have seen trending on Twitter as #31c3) on Dec. 27.
Krissler demonstrated the process in an hour-long presentation. He said he used several high-definition, close-range photographs of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen’s hand from different angles and the fingerprint-identification software called VeriFinger to replicate her fingerprint. He then created a dummy fingerprint from wood glue and plaster.
