Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian Hotel Website Hacked

The website for Las Vegas’ Venetian Hotel has been hacked and is currently down hard.

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Sheldon AdelsonSheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation which runs The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, is also a philanthropist who donates generously to Republicans, which could be why he’s been targeted.

Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11 million, with another $10 million injection widely expected, into the former speaker’s super PAC, Winning Our Future. “They like to trash other people. It’s unfair that I’ve been treated unfair—but it doesn’t stop me. I might give $10 million or $100 million to Gingrich.” — Forbes, 2/21/2012

According to my sources in Vegas, upon the initial discovery of the hack, a person going to the Venetian Hotel site was met with a full page animated graphic that showed a map of the world with hotels burning and the words “Damn A, Don’t let your tongue cut your throat”. Hmmm… the “Anti WMD Team” doesn’t exactly sound like a right wing-type group the Department of Homeland Security is watching. Then again, left wing groups NEVER commit crimes that involve the destruction of property, right?