- Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Can Be Unlocked By Anyone, Samsung Promise To Drop An Update To Fix It
- Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Anyone Unlock Issue
This is insanely rediculous, the current Samsung flagship spotted to be unlocked with anyone's fingerprint, when they fingers is not registered on the device. However Samsung has Pleads with users, promised a software patch that would fix the problem.
This was spotted out today by a British woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his thumbprint when it was stored in a cheap case. The S10 was launched, in March, Samsung described the fingerprint authentication system as "revolutionary". The scanner sends ultrasounds to detect 3D ridges of fingerprints in order to recognise users. Samsung said it was "aware of the case of S10's malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue a software patch".
South Korea's online-only KaKao Bank told customers to switch off the fingerprint-recognition option to log in to its services until the issue was fixed. Previous reports suggested some screen protectors were incompatible with Samsung's reader because they left a small air gap that interfered with the scanning. According to the Sun newspaper, the couple said, after buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson registered her right Fingerprint and then found her left Fingerprint, which was not registered, could also unlock the phone.
She then asked her husband to try and both his thumbs also unlocked it. And when the screen protector was added to another relative's phone, the same thing happened.
South Korea's online-only KaKao Bank told customers to switch off the fingerprint-recognition option to log in to its services until the issue was fixed. Previous reports suggested some screen protectors were incompatible with Samsung's reader because they left a small air gap that interfered with the scanning. According to the Sun newspaper, the couple said, after buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson registered her right Fingerprint and then found her left Fingerprint, which was not registered, could also unlock the phone.
She then asked her husband to try and both his thumbs also unlocked it. And when the screen protector was added to another relative's phone, the same thing happened.
Definitely this something Samsung have to look in, I mean is very terrifying when some you knew nothing about, gets and access your credentials by using they Fingerprint in unlocking your device. Nah that's not acceptable.
