Curaçao Gaming Authority Scraps Hacked Licensing Portal for Good

Curaçao's casino regulator has not set a date for a replacement system. It promised details of a stopgap filing process by Oct. 9; nothing had been posted on its website by Oct. 12.

Francis Gable

12/10/26 · 2 minOctober 12, 2026 · 2 min read

The Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) said on Oct. 7 that its hacked online licensing portal will not be returned to service. The contracts for the services that kept the portal running are ending too.

Curaçao-licensed casinos use the portal to apply for licenses and file their compliance paperwork. The regulator has not named a replacement platform or provided a date for the switchover.

The island has 617 online gambling licenses, according to a statement from Random Consulting, which says it designed and maintains the portal. One belongs to Shuffle, which took almost $2.7 billion in crypto deposits in the 365 days to Oct. 12, according to FairGambling's tracker.

Licenses Stay Valid as Filings Stall

The CGA says the shutdown does not change whether existing licenses are valid or what licensed operators must do. It says licensing and supervision will run through "alternative arrangements" while it builds a stopgap system.

The regulator aimed to explain those arrangements by Oct. 9. As of Oct. 12, its website listed currently doesn't provide a newer notice.

On Oct. 2 the CGA had postponed filing deadlines "until the portal becomes available again." The Oct. 7 notice set no new ones.

The CGA also warned that its digital seal "will be affected." The seal is the badge on a casino's website that links to the regulator's record, and players use it to check a license. On Oct. 12, the seal on Shuffle's site still opened a CGA certificate showing its license as active.

The Breach Is Still Being Counted

The CGA said on Sept. 22 that a German security researcher got in through an account registered under a false identity. That access ran from December 2025 to September 2026, and the regulator has not yet established what was taken.

FairGambling covered the CGA's confirmation of the hack in September.

The Oct. 7 notice says the CGA is still working to contain the leak. Operators are waiting on two things the regulator has promised but not dated: the stopgap filing process and the replacement for the seal.

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