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Do you also have the habit of flashing a 'peace sign' (holding up two fingers) while taking a selfie? If so, you need to change this habit immediately. In today's world, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is incredibly helpful, but it is equally dangerous. Hackers can use AI to steal both your personal details and your money. In this context, a report by the *South China Morning Post* has made a shocking revelation. According to the report, hackers can use AI to extract your fingerprints from a simple selfie. This is a very serious matter; let's find out how.

**How ​​are Fingerprints Being Stolen?**
According to this report, security expert Li Chang demonstrated live on a Chinese TV show just how easy it has become to steal fingerprints. He used a celebrity's selfie to illustrate how a photo featuring a 'peace sign' actually contains complete fingerprint data.

**At What Distance Does the Risk Exist?**
According to the security expert, if the camera is positioned 1.5 meters—or approximately 5 feet—away from you, and your fingertips are pointing directly toward the camera, your fingerprint data can be extracted with great ease and precision. Furthermore, even if the photo was taken from a distance of 1.5 to 3 meters, hackers can still obtain approximately 50% of your fingerprint details.

**AI Can Sharpen Even Blurry Photos**
You might now be wondering: "My fingers often appear blurry in my selfies, so how could my fingerprints possibly be stolen?" This is precisely where AI makes the hackers' job easier. Using advanced photo-editing and AI-enhancement tools, hackers can transform those blurry images of fingers into sharp, high-quality reproductions.

This allows them to obtain the complete details of your fingerprints. Experts issue a grave warning regarding this, noting that while a compromised password can be changed, fingerprint or facial data (biometrics) is permanently fixed. Consequently, if this data is stolen—even once—you could become a permanent victim of identity theft and suffer significant financial losses.

**AI Hacking Has Reached an Industrial Scale**

It is not just fingerprints; across the entire landscape of cyber hacking, the use of AI has now reached an extremely dangerous and industrial scale. According to a recent report by Google's Threat Intelligence Group, AI-driven hacking has emerged as a major global threat within a span of just three months.

Sophisticated hacking groups linked to nations such as China, North Korea, and Russia are now extensively utilizing commercial AI tools—such as Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI—to execute cyberattacks that are faster, larger in scale, and far more lethal than ever before.

The gravity of this escalating threat is underscored by a major decision made last month by Anthropic, a leading AI company, which explicitly refused to release its newest and most advanced AI model—'Mythos'—to the general public.

The company has issued a warning stating that this technology is so powerful that, should it fall into the wrong hands—specifically those of hackers—it could trigger a massive crisis for banking systems, governments, and global security worldwide.

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