Look out for those motion sensors in buildings, they can reveal your phone's pin

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BEIJING: Smartphones could be smarter than you need them to be. A new study shows that hackers could potentially steal a mobile device's pin number with the help of motion sensors, further revealing an information security vulnerability.

Researchers at Newcastle University in Britain found that hackers are able to decipher pins and passwords just from the way people tilt the phone when typing in the numbers. The findings were published in the International Journal of Information Security on Monday.