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Apple's iPhone 5S Touch ID has already been broken. Now there's a video showing how you can do it. The Berlin-based Chaos Computer club announced that one of their members, nicknamed Starbug had successfully hacked the fingerprint scanner.

In an unofficial fingerprint scanner hacking contest, IsTouchIDHackedYet, the contest organizers verified Starbug's hack and declared him the winner.

Here's some evidence of how he did it:



"It's very easy," he added. "You basically can do it at home with inexpensive office equipment like an image scanner, a laser printer, and a kit for etching PCBs [Printed Circuit Boards]. And it will only take you a couple of hours. The techniques are actually several years old and are readily available on the Internet."