Samsung has officially confirmed a flaw that shows that a Galaxy S10 can be unlocked by any fingerprint.
The mobile phone giant has promised it would fix the problem.
According to reports, the error was discovered by a British woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his fingerprint just by adding a cheap screen protector.
Samsung during the launch of the S10 in March had described the fingerprint authentication system as revolutionary.
The scanner sends ultrasounds to detect 3D ridges of fingerprints in order to recognize users.
Samsung said it was “aware of the case of S10’s malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue 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.
The British couple who discovered the security has expressed great concern stating the matter is of real concern.
The British woman, Lisa Neilson after buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could 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.
