Yes, they are all moving further and further down.
Tipico was the first to have this 84% at pngo, sunmaker now has it too, now apparently SlotMagie and others.
At betathome the new pragmatic games come with 85%, instead of 87-90 as initially. Synot also with 85 instead of 90.... It's really ridiculous. The only playable stores with a license are Löwenplay and Lapalingo.de and Co, and then only the slots with high rtp and tax.
Normally I would say, who wants dirty should get dirty...
But as we said a few days ago, it would be important that 1. this shit is seen by everyone and 2. NO ONE plays there anymore. Not in any way. Also no twisting NoDep spins. Just ignore it and delete the bookmark in your browser. That would be the best thing for us players... Because it's just a waste of life time with a casual bankruptcy effect
Online casinos such as "Slotmagie" offline after data loss
The German Online Casinos of the Merkur Group shut down their games on Saturday. Prior to this, the most private data of hundreds of thousands of people was accessible
on the afternoon of March 15, 2025, the websites of online gambling providers SlotMagie, CrazyBuzzer and Merkurbets went into maintenance mode. They belong to Merkur.com AG, one of the largest German companies for gambling of all kinds. According to observations by heise online, the games went offline on Saturday afternoon between 2 and 4 pm. The websites are still accessible, but games are no longer possible at the time of this report
Slotmagie and Crazy Buzzer offered their games again from around 10 p.m. on Saturday evening. Merkurbets has since displayed a new maintenance message stating that the LUGAS cross-border gambling supervisory system was down. At around 10:30 p.m., Merkurbets' games were also available again - but only if you manually deleted the site's cookies beforehand or accessed it via an incognito browser.
The evening before, security researcher Lilith Wittmann had pointed out a massive data protection problem that had existed until shortly before in a blog post: Numerous data from several hundred thousand players could be accessed via the casinos' APIs. The Provider had already informed players on Thursday about a security vulnerability and the associated data outflow on Thursday evening.
Unsecured GraphQL
A GraphQL interface is bet, which also allows nested retrievals of several objects at the same time. Unauthorized queries should actually be prevented by a functioning authorization management system, but this was not the case here. Wittmann not only found data such as full names and account information, but also game histories and players' deposits and withdrawals. For many of them, information was also found with which they legitimized themselves to the gambling provider.
According to the reports that Wittmann used to inform the state gambling authorities (GGL), and which were made available to heise online, they also included copies of ID cards and letters from employment agencies. Over 70,000 copies of ID cards alone are said to have been found, with data on over 800,000 people in total. Legitimization of customers, including through ID cards, is a legal requirement for some online providers as part of "Know-Your-Customer" (KYC) procedures.
All casinos with software from "The Mill" offline
The Merkur Group uses portal software from the Maltese company "The Mill Adventures" in its casinos. This had an inadequately protected GraphQL interface. According to Wittmann, the company operates a legal instance of its software as well as another for some online casinos that are not legal in Germany. Following spot checks early on Saturday evening, these presumably illegal casinos are also no longer accessible for the time being.
Why all casinos with The Mill software are now apparently no longer accessible remains unclear for the time being. The warnings issued by the Merkur Group on its website and by e-mail about a so-called "current data protection case" can only be endorsed: Anyone who was or is a customer at one of the casinos should pay closer attention to potentially illegal activities on their bank accounts or attempts at identity fraud.
As Lilith Wittmann told heise online, direct and anonymous access to the data has no longer been possible for a few days. However, it cannot be ruled out that others may have copied the casinos' treasure trove of data prior to their access since the end of February.
Update
16.03.2025, 14:11
Merkur.com AG informed heise online on Sunday that the outages of the gaming offers were caused by LUGAS: "We were also forced to temporarily take our systems offline for this reason. This measure is in no way connected to the cyber attack on our service provider."
Quite worrying.
Shouldn't we have been informed about precautionary measures?
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Yes, they are all moving further and further down.
Tipico was the first to have this 84% at pngo, sunmaker now has it too, now apparently SlotMagie and others.
At betathome the new pragmatic games come with 85%, instead of 87-90 as initially. Synot also with 85 instead of 90.... It's really ridiculous. The only playable stores with a license are Löwenplay and Lapalingo.de and Co, and then only the slots with high rtp and tax.
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Normally I would say, who wants dirty should get dirty...
But as we said a few days ago, it would be important that 1. this shit is seen by everyone and 2. NO ONE plays there anymore. Not in any way. Also no twisting NoDep spins. Just ignore it and delete the bookmark in your browser. That would be the best thing for us players... Because it's just a waste of life time with a casual bankruptcy effect
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Online casinos such as "Slotmagie" offline after data loss
The German Online Casinos of the Merkur Group shut down their games on Saturday. Prior to this, the most private data of hundreds of thousands of people was accessible
on the afternoon of March 15, 2025, the websites of online gambling providers SlotMagie, CrazyBuzzer and Merkurbets went into maintenance mode. They belong to Merkur.com AG, one of the largest German companies for gambling of all kinds. According to observations by heise online, the games went offline on Saturday afternoon between 2 and 4 pm. The websites are still accessible, but games are no longer possible at the time of this report
Slotmagie and Crazy Buzzer offered their games again from around 10 p.m. on Saturday evening. Merkurbets has since displayed a new maintenance message stating that the LUGAS cross-border gambling supervisory system was down. At around 10:30 p.m., Merkurbets' games were also available again - but only if you manually deleted the site's cookies beforehand or accessed it via an incognito browser.
The evening before, security researcher Lilith Wittmann had pointed out a massive data protection problem that had existed until shortly before in a blog post: Numerous data from several hundred thousand players could be accessed via the casinos' APIs. The Provider had already informed players on Thursday about a security vulnerability and the associated data outflow on Thursday evening.
Unsecured GraphQL
A GraphQL interface is bet, which also allows nested retrievals of several objects at the same time. Unauthorized queries should actually be prevented by a functioning authorization management system, but this was not the case here. Wittmann not only found data such as full names and account information, but also game histories and players' deposits and withdrawals. For many of them, information was also found with which they legitimized themselves to the gambling provider.
According to the reports that Wittmann used to inform the state gambling authorities (GGL), and which were made available to heise online, they also included copies of ID cards and letters from employment agencies. Over 70,000 copies of ID cards alone are said to have been found, with data on over 800,000 people in total. Legitimization of customers, including through ID cards, is a legal requirement for some online providers as part of "Know-Your-Customer" (KYC) procedures.
All casinos with software from "The Mill" offline
The Merkur Group uses portal software from the Maltese company "The Mill Adventures" in its casinos. This had an inadequately protected GraphQL interface. According to Wittmann, the company operates a legal instance of its software as well as another for some online casinos that are not legal in Germany. Following spot checks early on Saturday evening, these presumably illegal casinos are also no longer accessible for the time being.
Why all casinos with The Mill software are now apparently no longer accessible remains unclear for the time being. The warnings issued by the Merkur Group on its website and by e-mail about a so-called "current data protection case" can only be endorsed: Anyone who was or is a customer at one of the casinos should pay closer attention to potentially illegal activities on their bank accounts or attempts at identity fraud.
As Lilith Wittmann told heise online, direct and anonymous access to the data has no longer been possible for a few days. However, it cannot be ruled out that others may have copied the casinos' treasure trove of data prior to their access since the end of February.
Update
16.03.2025, 14:11
Merkur.com AG informed heise online on Sunday that the outages of the gaming offers were caused by LUGAS: "We were also forced to temporarily take our systems offline for this reason. This measure is in no way connected to the cyber attack on our service provider."
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I hope the hack was frozen, otherwise it shouldn't be chewed through after 2 months.
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Not really anymore, every now and then there are some good 1cent tournaments, quasi freerolls, but not for a long time.
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