German group claims to have hacked Apple iPhone fingerprint scanner

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/german-group-claims-hacked-apple-025253471.html

By Jim Finkle
Reuters
September 22, 2013

BOSTON - A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone 
fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc(NSQ:AAPL) 
launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from 
criminals and snoopers seeking access.

If the claim is verified, it will be embarrassing for Apple which is 
betting on the scanner to set its smartphone apart from new models of 
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others running the Android operating system 
of Google Inc (NSQ:GOOG).

Two prominent iPhone security experts told Reuters that they believed the 
German group, known as the Chaos Computing Club, or CCC, had succeeded in 
defeating Apple's Touch ID, though they had not personally replicated the 
work.

One of them, Charlie Miller, co-author of the iOS Hacker's Handbook, 
described the work as "a complete break" of Touch ID security. "It 
certainly opens up a new possibility for attackers."

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