Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones

Your fingerprints might not be as safe as you think they are on your Finger Print Sensor enabled Android Devices.

The threat is for now confined mostly to Android devices that have fingerprint sensors, such as Samsung, Huawei, and HTC devices. Hackers prove that HTC One Max and Samsung's Galaxy S5, allows a hacker to stealthily acquire a fingerprint image from an affected device because device makers don't fully lock down the sensor. Worst is, the sensor on some devices is only guarded by the "system" privilege instead of root, making it easier to target. Once the attack successful, the fingerprint sensor can continue to quietly collect fingerprint data on anyone who uses the sensor.
Affected vendors have since provided patches after being alerted by the researcher hackers. The researchers did not comment on which vendor is more secure than others. But Apple's iPhone, which pioneered the modern fingerprint sensor, is "quite secure," as it encrypts fingerprint data from the scanner, they said.

The only way to stay secured, as per the researchers said, is to keep updated to every major updates and installing apps from secure and trusted sources only.