Two of China’s leading payment giants, who hold more than 90% of the local mobile payments market, have disabled the fingerprint payment method for Samsung’s two flagship models, the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10 devices, after it was revealed that they had severe fingerprint sensor faults. WeChat Pay, owned by Chinese technology giant Tencent, disabled the fingerprint payment option for the affected Samsung models on Monday after the company was informed of the fingerprint security flaw at 17:00 local time on the same day, Chinese reports said on Wednesday, citing a statement from Tencent’s payment arm.

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