The newly released iPhone 5s, which features a high-tech fingerprint scanner to supposedly safeguard the user's phone as wel as information, has also very recently been hacked. 

The iPhone 5s has been hacked by a group of community of German hackers claiming to have unlocked this seemingly impenetrable security feature. If their claims are true, then they are to receive a reward that is offered by security researchers as well as other interested hackers. 
The community, called the Germany's Chaos Computing Club (GCCC), declared that they were abe to get past the biometric code of the new iPhone 5s. But how did they do it? 

It certainly sounds complicated, but rather doable:

They took a fingerprint from a glass of water, photographing it with a hi-res 2400dpi camera. THey then took the image, inverted it and then printed it using a heavy toner version at 12000dpi. the ensuing printout was then printed on white wood, then glued or smeared with latex over the fingerprint pattern. This pattern is then cured, and once the print is separated on a latex sheet, it was breathed on to be made slightly moist, and then subsequently placed on the fingerprint scanner. The iPhone 5s was then unlocked.

GCCC's prize includes some bottles of alcohol, a porn book, along with $20,000 dollars--a bounty that has been raised in the interest of finding a way to break through the TouchID, which is what Apple calls the Fingerprint scanning device.

While the hacking may seem to be a victory to some enthusiastic hackers worldwide, the sinister implications of this feat makes known a larger threat to security, especially in the digital age where somebody's information, could easily be accessed trhough their phones. Apple has not yet responded to this threat, or whether they are currently scrambling for an upgrade with a tighter security system.