You ever see a story so dumb that you start double-checking it’s not a troll?
Because the Louvre — yes, the home of the Mona Lisa and roughly half of Earth’s cultural heritage got robbed of $103 million worth of jewels, and the post-heist report revealed that the password for the museum’s video security system was literally “Louvre.”
That’s it. No numbers, no exclamation point, no “L0uvr3.”
Just… Louvre.
According to documents seen by Libération, France’s National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) found the museum’s surveillance network was trivial to access.”
The password for another critical software?
“THALES,” which, hilariously, is also the name of the company that made it. That’s like protecting your iPhone with the password “Apple.”
The report dates back years, 2014, to be exact, when ANSSI warned that “an attacker who gains control could facilitate theft or damage of artworks.”
Now in 2025, and those same outdated systems (still running Windows Server 2003, by the way) were apparently still online when a group of thieves in high-vis vests used a cherry picker to raid the Apollo Gallery. The entire heist took seven minutes.
One cybersecurity expert put it bluntly: “This isn’t a policy gap, it’s an invitation.”
Museum director Laurence des Cars called the incident “a terrible failure” and admitted the Louvre had suffered from “years of underinvestment.”
Translation: They spent millions protecting priceless art, just not on the part that actually protects it (meaning? they might be pocketing that cash themselves).
I felt bad for the museum at first, but now, I think they deserved it. I mean, this was world-class laziness.
I bet whoever cracked it thought the museum was trolling them at first.
The Louvre’s password can be literally guessed by anyone with basic spelling skills. It’s what happens when tradition meets tech and decides, “Eh, good enough.”
In the digital age, even art’s greatest fortress fell to the world’s oldest weakness, human carelessness.
The entire security team should be fired, and sued for such a poor job, or leave this as it was until something else happens.
THE WHY: NEGLIGENCE
Weirdness Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Five stars because the only thing more valuable than the stolen jewels is the sheer stupidity that made it possible. Forget Ocean’s Eleven, this was Wi-Fi’s One.
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