German Group Wins Contest to Hack Apple's Fingerprint Scanner

The hacker Starbug has been declared the winner of the unofficial crowdsourced contest to foil Apple's Touch ID fingerprint scanner

Starbug, whose real name and identity have not been revealed, is a member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a Berlin-based collective. He can now claim the bounty of around $10,000 (originally almost $20,000), several bottles of wine and liquor and a pornographic book. Luckily, as the contest organizers noted, Starbug is of legal drinking age.

The two organizers of the challenge, Nick Depetrillo and Robert David Graham, announced the win on IsTouchIDHackedYet.com, changing the site's header from "maybe" to "yes" on Monday. They also made the announcement on Twitter. Read more...