While Health Insurance is the target of a new attack, Anonymous manages to hack the FSD servers and the European Union wants to fight against smartphones with integrated batteries, this is the recap of the week.
Bad news for Amazon Prime subscribers, the service makes unsubscribing more and more complicated. While the European Union plans to force the return of removable batteries in smartphones, all charges against IPTV pirate Hamid Al-Hamid have finally been dropped. As Anonymous continues its cyber war against Russia, the Ameli site is once again the target of hackers. Welcome to the recap of the week.
Prime subscribers increasingly hostage to the service
Some internal Amazon documents reveal a strategy called “Project Illiad” whose goal is to discourage customers from leaving Amazon Prime. Our colleagues from the Business Insider site have discovered that the service continues to complicate the unsubscription steps. The platform, despite numerous complaints, denies and claims to do “to make it clear and simple for customers to join or cancel their Prime membership”.
Read: Amazon Prime: canceling your subscription has become hell
An IPTV pirate escapes all of his legal sanctions
In 2016, IPTV hacker Hamid al-Hamid was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and fined around 20 million euros for broadcasting beIN Sports content on his IPTV channel. The owner of the Advanced TV Network (ATN) service, however, seems to have pulled through. Indeed, the pirate denied having committed any illegal act by recalling that Qatar had only joined the Rome Convention in 2017, a year after his arrest. As a result, the charges against Hamid al-Hamid were dropped entirely.
Read: This IPTV pirate found an unstoppable trick to escape prison and a 20 million euro fine
The Ameli platform again victim of an attack
This Thursday, March 17, Health Insurance published a press release to announce that it had been the victim of an attack on its Ameli platform, endangering the personal data of around 510,000 French people. Through a strategychain questions”, the hackers thus had access to the identity information of the victims but also to their medical data. The flaw has since been corrected and the Health Insurance undertakes to warn the French people concerned by this attack.
Read: Health insurance: the Ameli site has been hacked, the data of 510,000 French people are on the run
Anonymous still in cyber war against Russia
Still in cyberwar against Russia, the hacker collective Anonymous announced on its Twitter account on Tuesday that it had won a new battle. With the words ” Tango Down “, the group explains that it managed to hack the servers of the FSB (former KGB), the Russian secret services, but also the official sites of the city of Moscow, the Analytical Center of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Russian Ministry of Sports. .
Read: Anonymous managed to hack Russian secret service servers
Towards the end of smartphones with integrated batteries?
For many years, telephones have been systematically equipped with built-in batteries. But that era could be coming to an end. Indeed, the European Parliament has said it plans to make removable batteries mandatory soon, in a bid to extend the life of electronic devices. Right to Repair specifies that the European Parliament must now come to an agreement with the European Council. The entry into force would be scheduled for January 1, 2024 so that manufacturers have time to comply with the new regulations.
Read: The European Union demands the return of removable batteries on smartphones
Our tests of the week
Motorola Edge 30 Pro: an almost perfect smartphone
For a very reasonable price and despite an increase of 100 euros compared to the Edge 20 Pro, Motorola offers here a quality smartphone thanks to its well-calibrated screen, its autonomy, its fast charge and its sleek and efficient interface. We appreciate the many accessories, including the headphones provided. The Edge 30 Pro is also a good photophone, if we stick to the main sensor and the ultra wide-angle sensor. We regret the disappearance of the telephoto module and the noise of the digital zoom.
Read: Motorola Edge 30 Pro test: a very good smartphone that is not missing much
Xiaomi 12 Pro: still a few bugs to fix …
With its 12 Pro model, Xiaomi offers a smartphone with a sober and elegant design whose power is impressive. We appreciate its photo and video qualities as well as its x2 zoom, even if the colors are not always perfectly respected. We regret the average quality of the speakers when we increase the volume. For 1099.90 euros and even if the Xiaomi 12 Pro is a good smartphone, we would like to find fewer bugs and stability problems.
Read: Xiaomi 12 Pro 5G review: I love you neither
First handling of the Galaxy A33 and Galaxy A53
We discovered the two new mid-range smartphones from Samsung, the Galaxy A33 and the Galaxy A53 and we were pleasantly surprised. Both IP67 certified and compatible with 5G networks, the Galaxy A33 and A53 are elegant and their design is particularly neat. They are pleasant to handle and come in white, black, peach and sky blue. Both smartphones are equipped with a flat AMOLED panel in Full HD, a 5000 mAh battery, are powered by an Exynos 1280 SoC and ship Android 12 with the One 4.1 overlay. Go to our news to discover the video of our handling.
Read: Galaxy A33 and Galaxy A53: our hands-on experience with Samsung’s new flagship smartphones
