Curacao Scraps Hacked Licensing Portal, Misses Its Own Update Deadline

Curacao Scraps Hacked Licensing Portal, Misses Its Own Update Deadline

Curaçao’s gambling regulator says the online portal it uses to license offshore casinos will not return after the hack it disclosed in September. It aimed to give details of interim arrangements by Oct. 9, but had published none by Tuesday morning.

The Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) announced on Oct. 7 that its online gaming portal “will not be returned to service,” and that the “associated service arrangements supporting the platform” would end with it. The regulator credited the portal with supporting Curaçao’s online gaming reform since 2024. In practice, it was the website where companies applied for a Curaçao license and uploaded the documents the regulator reviews, from ownership records to compliance policies, and the system the leaked files were taken from.

It was already offline, according to an Oct. 2 notice. Licensing, compliance, and supervision “will continue through alternative arrangements while an interim solution is being implemented,” the CGA said, with details “currently targeted for no later than October 9, 2026.” As of Tuesday morning UTC, the regulator’s news page listed nothing after the Oct. 7 announcement.

The Oct. 2 notice told operators not to email documents meant for the portal, because “such submissions cannot be processed through alternative channels at this time,” and postponed portal filing deadlines until the portal came back, which the CGA has since said it won’t.

The CGA said the “availability of the current digital seal will be affected” and that it would “shortly introduce an alternative mechanism” for operators to show a domain is licensed. On Tuesday morning, the