Well, now we know that the rate includes breakfast! I think they're going to use the "hacker" excuse to cancel everything. Google translate says this:
Lorenzo Baldoni
VENICE (August 12) - Who does not like to spend two nights in Venice in a luxury hotel in the modest sum of ten cents, breakfast included?
At a time of crisis like the current one where many are forced to tighten their belts would be a really nice gift. Unfortunately, this is a joke, a "fish" ferragosto, given the period. Because an attacker on the night of Sunday, August 9 was able to enter the central computer system that is located in Atlanta, the most famous hotel chain in the world, namely the IHG (International Hotels Group), which includes Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Express and Intercontinental, and has opened a promotion PIZAZZ on-line. So much so that at the Crowne Plaza Venice East Quarto d'Altino arrived within two hours of sun 5000 bookings.
Everything is done in real time. From the direction of which is located in Viale della Resistenza do know that the technicians are still working to take away from sites promoting bluff. We immediately closed the reservation systems bluff, but now is open the problem to warn more than 5,000 customers that their dream of sleeping in Venice at 10 cents has vanished like a summer storm."
The news has traveled the world, so just go to google and type "Crowne Plaza Hotel Venice East - mistake (error)" and no mention of other overseas especially in the United States. The news is then issued to blog blog, from community to community, resulting in bookings from the U.S., Norway, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Estonia.
The attacker is obviously a connoisseur of the big hotels and their quality. Why the Crowne Plaza Venice East is one of the most luxurious Venetian inland, quoted in trade journals for its services.