Curaçao Gaming Authority Schedules Temporary Portal After Licensing Hack

The Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) said it would switch on a temporary licensing portal on Oct. 19, replacing the system it abandoned after a nine-month breach.

The stopgap is meant to bring back the license register and digital seal. The seal is the badge on a casino's website that players click to check its license.

Parts of the System Still Await Testing

The CGA's statement, dated Oct. 18, described a scheduled launch rather than a finished one. The internal system, the seal and the register were ready for checks by independent security specialists.

The client portal, where operators file applications, was still being adjusted. Security testing was due to follow.

The regulator took the old portal offline in September. On Oct. 7 it said that portal would never return and ended the outside provider's regulatory services.

The CGA says closing the old portal does not invalidate any license, and licensees must still meet their obligations. On Oct. 20, the seal on Shuffle's site opened a CGA certificate listing its license as active.

The Breach Response Widens

The CGA says a German security researcher got into the portal without permission between December 2025 and September 2026. According to the regulator, that person published license holders' data. It calls this criminal conduct and has filed complaints in Curaçao, Germany and the Netherlands.

The authority has also hired firms to remove the leaked material online. It commissioned an independent technical investigation and says it is considering civil legal action.

The temporary portal is a bridge. The CGA says it is preparing to build and run a permanent portal of its own, but it gave no date. As of Oct. 20, its website had not confirmed that the temporary system was open to operators.

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