It's been written here many times that cybercriminals may target confidential data from many offshore casinos, which can be used for blackmail. I'd also add that hackers don't always aim to blackmail and sell confidential data. Sometimes, these are so-called "white hat" hackers whose goal is to expose vulnerabilities in website security—in this case, the website of regulators. This can reveal that confidential data is being improperly stored.

After the Coldcard wallet exploit, a group of white-hat volunteers called the Bitcoin Red Team conducted a massive audit of open-source infrastructure. They discovered many vulnerabilities that were reported to the affected projects. I believe the Curaçao hacks were carried out by a black-hat hacker because the affected organization discovered the exploit. If it were not for financial gains, the hackers would have contacted Curaçao, informing them of their discoveries.

Nevertheless, these are just speculations because the real reason for the exploits will become obvious when they start asking for ransom or selling the information on dark web platforms.

The blackmail can work if the casino owner has some dirties tied to their real identity and these big players always do. I believe the higher risk here is having unreal legitimate access to partners, third-party clients or even casino staffs to scam them, while they think they're dealing with the real person, being in possession of real IDs, it will take a tight confirmation channels to identify that their acts are fraudulent. Their clients or other linked companies can be a candidate for phishing scams.

I think these casino owners who ever submitted such IDs should find a way to invalidate all those IDs they submitted and get a new one for a start and change whatever is changeable in order to limit the validity and usage of these leaked credentials.

I used to think only old people would trust people like Facebook, but even young working professionals so happy to upload all their personal family photos and names and even docs on Linkedin, the world seems to be more trusting of sites and social media now,,, despite knowing more and more how evil they are. I will never get it 


Or actually just willing to sell it. Poor security is one thing but evil plans for it is another thing and I am afraid corporations are only evil now.

What we don't know is that access to wealthy people's privacy is like having access to their wealth. Imagine founding out a particular casino belongs to one wealthy man, know most of the details about him and even how he operated, such information can be share to armed robbers and even hackers will want to use the information to steal from such person. It might not be an instant compromising, some hackers can track victims for long until they get what they wanted.

There is no way a hacker will have access to casino information, the owners behind it and not sell it for money. There are people that will want to buy such information, the casino also have people they are competing against that will want such information. If there is corruption going on within that regulation, they migjt even found out with such information. There many things that can be helpful or dangerous if they go outside or to the wrong people depending on who got access to it.

I believe some Individuals are just trying to get a sensitive information from Curacao gaming Authority because it's a gaming license Authority, those hackers behind the unauthorized access to the portal is not looking for money because Curacao won't save money on their portal so they might probably be looking for something else or getting KYCs from other high profile gambling sites that has been licensed by the Authority.

There must be something very reliable that the hackers are looking for and imagine they get access to a very wealthy gamblers KYC registration details that how they will wipe the account and steal all his money, sometimes I don't really blame some gamblers that don't fully register their KYCs online because of this kind of news and they are afraid that their informations might leaked and they will lost valuable amounts of money. The regulatory body should be very careful and do a proper encoding to avoid hackers getting access into the portal.

From what I read her intention was not to steal money or access any casino fund.
That person who gained access in this particular incident was cybersecurity researcher and she shared those data she obtained with journalist.

She said her intention was to reveal who the real owner of unscrupulous casinos are and how they operate their business. That mean they want to reveal to the world, identity of true owner behind offshore casino and gambling businesses, as well as financial irregularities involved.

Here’s what’s interesting: what will this information be used for? Is this a classic leak/sale/blackmail, or is someone investigating the actual owners of the casinos, and are we in for a "shock" from the results of the investigation? If they’re really going to throw "all their resources into finding the hackers" right now - that means there was actual information about very public figures and politicians...

Still I am not very clear what they will achieve after hacking a government-owned website if casinos are registered under proxy with nowhere address for the registration purpose but also I am reading it is not possible to do that anymore. So hackers will now have the sensitive informations of multiple casinos which might include the personal details of the casino owners that brings up huge security concerns for them.