Here below we are reproducing the statement by the German hacker and researcher, Lilith Wittmann, who hacked the Malta Gaming Authority. The MGA confirmed the hack but according to the MGA’s statement, it is unclear what kind of data has been accessed.
The aims of the hacker are also not clear, so far, although she mentioned “organised criminal groups”. It is also unclear whether her attack is against the gambling industry in Malta as a whole or specific groups in Malta. Many types of gambling are illegal in Germany and the German culture is very suspicious of gambling and anything connected with the gambling industry.
Malta has a very extensive gambling industry with many popular brands also using Malta as their base and the gambling industry has has often been used by crime and organised criminal groups – Yorgen Fenech himself was the CEO of a company that owned gambling and casino businesses.
However, this doesn’t even seem to have been a “hack” in the first place – according to her. She said that the “hack” was just as easy with regard to her previous “hack” of the CDU’s website. If Lilith Wittmann is making the correct comparison, to cut a long story short, the MGA had some data that was publicly available, which wasn’t supposed to be publicly available, and Lilith Wittmann managed to access it. So this may not even have been a “hack” at all.
Her full statement below.
Dear Malta Gaming Authority, Yes, I hacked you, and the data obtained has been shared with media partners, authorities,…. And yes, we will expose the organized crime enablement schemes you created while presenting yourselves as a “legitimate public service. I hope the German authorities are, for once, smart and do not extradite me to Malta, where I would face up to 10 years imprisonment for hacking a public service. Any police action from Malta would also trigger the immediate release of my entire archive of iGaming-related data. I am certain that the information obtained is so valuable for the public discourse that obtaining it will one day, in the not-too-distant future, be seen as a justified necessity. As of today, I do not have anything else to share about the upcoming releases concerning the organized crime networks supported by countries like Malta. Therefore, please refrain from inquiries until further notice.
PS. Hacking the mga was a easy as hacking the CDU.
You know, Malta, thats the thing with different jurisdictions and white collar crime. Some laws and regulations can be seen as “RoBusT lEgaL FrAmeWorK” in some shithole jurisdictions. While in other countries we might call this organized crime structures and enablement of them.
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