Hackers Set Sights on iPhone 5S Fingerprint Scanner

If you are first to hack the new iPhone 5S Touch ID fingerprint scanner you could win over $8,000, more than $800 worth of Bitcoin, a pornographic book, and a few bottles of wine, tequila, bourbon and whiskey.

That's the total reward — which keeps increasing by the hour — that a group of hackers and security researchers have pledged to the first person who will be able to break into an iPhone 5S by lifting somebody else's fingerprints and tricking the scanner to unlock the phone

The crowdsourced bounty program, with each person's reward and the conditions of the challenge, were published on IsTouchIDHackedYet.com on Wednesday night. The unusual bounty drive was first reported by ZDNet. Read more...