Compiled by C. ARUNO, OON JUN-YANG and R. ARAVINTHANINSPIRED by the plot in a detective novel, a student in China managed to break into a safe at school using only chalk dust to trace fingerprints on the number pad, reported Sin Chew Daily. The incident took place at a high school in Shenzhen on Nov 14 when a student decided to crack the password combination on the safe in his classroom. Having taken inspiration from a detective novel, the student applied chalk dust on the number pad and managed to identify the numbers which had been pressed. Five days later, a fourth student opened the safe and stole all the phones stored inside. In one of the videos, the husband opened their bedroom wardrobe which revealed packs of tissue paper stacked as high as the ceiling.

Source: The Star December 23, 2025 10:10 UTC