In their investigation of a Chinese woman accused of credit card theft, Japanese police discovered that the woman had had her fingerprints surgically altered, according to an Epoch Time article. The woman, named Lin Xiuai, confessed to having a special clinic China perform the surgery to have her fingerprints changed for the equivalent of just under $4,500 due to wanting to enter Japan and having being arrested there in 2001 for suspicion of illegally entering the country. The surgery was successful enough that it enabled her to pass the biometric checkpoints at the airport.

Integrated Biometrics was touting its light emitting sensing fingerprint biometrics at the ISC West show. Jim Seaborn, vice president of business development at Integrated Biometrics, talked about how the technology uses a different type of fingerprint sensor that is resistant to “spoofing,” or using a fake biometric to fool a scanner.