So now hackers can use your phone's sensors to steal your PIN number

Yeah, so this isn't good. 

What if the very act of tapping your smartphone's passcode was all it took to expose that code to hackers? 

Are you sitting down right now? You should probably sit down. 

Remember that story on how fingerprint locks on smartphones can be duped? And that Samsung's facial recognition system can be tricked with a photo of a person? 

Well, as more and more of our personal data is stored on smartphones, the ways of securing those phones continue to be revealed as less and less robust. Next on the chopping block is your trusty PIN. Read more...