Curaçao Permanently Closes Its Gaming Portal

The Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) confirmed the decision in an October 7 announcement. It plans to move to a new system and introduce an additional way to verify licensed casino domains. Existing licences remain valid, but the authority has not announced when the replacement verification tool will launch.

Months of Access Before the CGA Detected the Breach

A German security researcher signed up for the portal under a false identity in December 2025, the CGA said. The account gave the researcher access to information about casino operators, as well as the authority’s internal files. 

The CGA only discovered and stopped that access in September 2026. In its follow-up statement, it said investigators still needed to establish how much information the researcher had taken.

Players Lose a Direct Licence Check

Players now face a problem when checking a casino’s Curaçao licence. With the portal offline, they can no longer use the CGA’s digital seal to confirm that the licence covers the website they want to play at.

The CGA still publishes an online licence register, which it last updated on October 12. However, the register lists licensed companies, and the regulator warns that these records do not guarantee a licence’s current validity. Players therefore lack the same direct confirmation for an individual casino website.

The authority promises an alternative way for operators to demonstrate that their domains hold a CGA licence. It has not explained how the replacement will work or given a launch date.

Regulatory Work Continues

The shutdown does not cancel existing licences or remove operators’ obligations. The CGA says licensing, compliance and supervision will continue through alternative arrangements while it prepares an interim system.

An earlier notice also postponed deadlines for documents that operators normally submit through the portal. It instructed companies not to send those submissions to the authority’s application email address because it could not process them through that channel.