An investigation into a broad-daylight heist at the Louvre that resulted in millions of dollars of irreplaceable jewelry stolen from one of the world’s most renowned museums has revealed the security system’s password.
Don’t tell anyone: it’s LOUVRE.
As part of its probe into what could have possibly gone wrong, France’s National Cybersecurity Agency was able to access a server managing the museum’s video surveillance using this painfully obvious password, according to confidential documents obtained by the French-language media outlet Libération.
As reported by the New York Post, the namesake password was first revealed by the agency in a 2014 audit. Subsequent audits found “serious shortcomings” in the Paris museum’s security systems — including the use of two-decade-old software, the newspaper reported.