Samsung Galaxy S5 could be open to fingerprint theft

The Samsung Galaxy S5 and other ‘unnamed Android devices’ are vulnerable to having the fingerprints they use for authentication cloned by hackers, reports Gizmodo.

According to researchers from FireEye, although Samsung takes steps to encrypt prints stored on the phone, they can be hijacked before they reach the encryption phase. This would allow fingerprints to be cloned and used to break other biometric authentication methods that use your fingerprints, Planet Biometrics explains.

Samsung Galaxy S5 could be open to fingerprint theft