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The Curaçao Gaming Authority has set out its fullest account yet of the breach of its licensing portal, blaming a German researcher and weighing civil action. The same document dates the unlawful access from December 2025 to September 2026, and says nothing about what was taken or who has been told.

A week after scrapping the licensing portal at the centre of the Casino Secrets leak, the Curaçao Gaming Authority is still adding licences to its register and has moved its forms to its main website. It has not published how applicants and licensees should file anything while the portal is gone.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority will not bring back the portal a hacker used for nine months, and is ending the service arrangements behind it. The seal that lets anyone check a Curaçao-licensed domain is affected too, and its replacement has not yet been published.

The newspaper's first reporting from the Curaçao regulator's files turns a licensing scandal into a question about who serves British players without a licence, and puts new documents behind its earlier reporting on the Santeda casino network. Its reporter also says the offshore trade is already moving on, to Anjouan and other lighter-touch licensors.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority now says the intruder in its licensing portal came in through an ordinary applicant account registered under a false identity in December 2025, and stayed until September. It also defended its licensing checks, in wording that appears to accept some questions were still open when licences were granted.

Follow the Money's first reporting from the Curaçao Gaming Authority leak says the regulator's own assessors doubted the declared ownership of the Curaçao companies behind Stake and 1xBet and granted licences anyway. The regulator's answer, that it did not reject applicants mid-transition, goes to the heart of the island's licensing reform.

Lilith Wittmann has claimed responsibility for the breach the Curaçao Gaming Authority disclosed this morning, says she has had access since December 2025, and has begun releasing material with broadcasters in five countries. She says the full list of ultimate beneficial owners is still to come.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority says the access has been contained and its source identified, and that it has found no compromise of core infrastructure, but it has not yet established what information was reached. The portal is the single channel for every licence application, supplier filing and incident report under the LOK.

Every analyst note leads with Brazil, Africa or the next US state. WiseGaming's commercial director says market access without a stack that can localise in weeks is "a money pit", that Curaçao's LOK reform is a filter he welcomes, that the agent model is converting rather than dying, and that his platform charges on net profit after bonuses, PSP and content costs rather than on GGR. He also says where the whole industry, his company included, is still behind on AI.

Nederlandse Loterij is not waiting for the regulator. It is suing an unlicensed operator directly, and the complaint singles out TikTok advertising aimed at Dutch players.

Federal prosecutors allege a Curaçao shell company was used to make a Brazilian betting operation look offshore before regulation arrived, and that the structures behind it were adapted rather than abandoned once it did. NSX Brasil says it operates lawfully.

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