Hacker Behind Curaçao ‘Casino Secrets’ Leak Wins MGA Court Battle

A German activist and hacker who breached the systems of the gaming authorities of Malta and Curaçao said Friday (September 25) that a new court judgment allows her to use documents she obtained from the Malta hack. In the same week that white-hat hacker Lilith Wittmann, above, published a trove of documents obtained from Curaçao’s gambling regulator, she won a key court ruling in her legal battle with its Maltese counterpart. (Image: Lilith Wittmann/X) Lilith Wittmann told followers on X that the Berlin Regional Court II ruling also allows her to continue describing the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) as an “organized crime enablement scheme,” although it prohibits her from accessing the regulator’s systems again. The MGA and its CEO, Charles Mizzi, took legal action against Wittmann after she announced she had gained access to its systems in March and shared data she obtained with media partners and authorities. “And yes, we will expose the organised crime enablement schemes you created while presenting yourselves as a ‘legitimate public service,’” she claimed at the time. ‘Organized Crime’ Claim The MGA and Mizzi sought an injunction in Germany, initially securing an order against Wittmann. She challenged it and has characterized the litigation as a SLAPP — a strategic lawsuit against public participation. The latest ruling does not establish that the MGA enables organized crime. Wittmann said during a September 10 hearing that the judge considered her statements on the subject permissible expressions of opinion rather than false statements of fact. Wittmann said the dispute ultimately generated around 2,000 pages of court documents and cost her between €15,000 and €20,000 in legal and court fees. Casino Secrets Knocked Offline The judgment came during an extraordinary week for Wittmann, who days earlier published a trove of more than 40,000 documents obtained from the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) as part of her “Casino Secrets” investigation. On the same day she announced the Berlin ruling, the website hosting the searchable Curaçao database was knocked offline. Registry records showed casinosecrets.lol had been placed on “server hold,” preventing the domain from resolving. Wittmann said domain registry operator XYZ had deplatformed the site before Cloudflare could act. But the archive was back online within hours after Wittmann moved it to another domain, curacaofiles.com, where it remains publicly accessible. It contains thousands of documents from operators’ license applications, including UBO and ownership information, corporate structures, source-of-wealth and funding documents, business plans, due-diligence material, and the CGA’s internal reviews and licensing conditions. Wittmann had said earlier Friday that the unresolved MGA litigation made publishing her latest Casino Secrets reporting legally risky, claiming an adverse ruling could potentially have exposed her to penalties of up to €250,000 or six months’ detention for violating an injunction. The MGA has not publicly commented on the Berlin judgment. Wittmann has previously exposed flaws in Germany’s gambling regulatory systems and vulnerabilities in public-sector IT. Her investigations have included security weaknesses in political and government systems, as well as extensive reporting on the international online gambling industry. The post Hacker Behind Curaçao ‘Casino Secrets’ Leak Wins MGA Court Battle appeared first on Casino.org.