Samsung has worryingly admitted that its in-display fingerprint sensor has a bug which allows anybody to unlock the Galaxy S10, even if they haven’t registered their ID.
This news was reported by BBC this week, which quoted a user with the phone, who was able to breach the phone’s security, merely by putting a third-party screen protector over it.
The user, Lisa Neilson spotted the issue when her husband unlocked her phone with his thumbprint, when it was stored in a cheap case. Afterwards, Samsung, quoted in the BBC report, said it will roll out a security update to fix this security issue that allowed unregistered fingerprints to unlock its Galaxy S10 device.
Mind you, during the launch of the phone, Samsung said its in-display security feature will be highly secure, but events from this week tell another story.
Hearing these reports, banking institutions in South Korea have informed users they should deactivate the security feature, especially while making payments, till the issue gets fixed by the company.
While Samsung has said that the issue will be resolved, they haven’t shared the exact timeline for rolling out the security patch.
But there’s a bigger concern with this revelation from Samsung. It’s not just the Galaxy S10 series that sports the biometric option, you’ve even got the Galaxy Note 10 equipped with it.
So, it remains to be seen if other users also complain about this issue in the coming weeks, and if that happens, then Samsung will have no option but to rollout the software patch at the earliest.
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