"The brazen October heist at The Louvre may have looked like a shock from the outside, but French government files show the exact risk had been neglected when spelled out in audit after audit for years, flagging dangerously outdated systems and even a surveillance system password that was LOUVRE. The museum is still reeling from the cost, both financial and reputational, of the astonishing daylight robbery that saw thieves escape with a haul of Napoleonic jewels in just seven minutes."
"Armed with power tools and dressed in high-visibility jackets, the gang broke through a second-floor window of the country's most famous museum, accessing the Apollon gallery via a maintenance area, where the French crown jewels are kept, before smashing display cases, and vanishing on motorbikes before guards could respond. Now the aftermath has become its own slow-motion scandal: how does the most famous museum on Earth end up with a security infrastructure that a French state audit once proved was vulnerable to passwords like LOUVRE?"
The Louvre experienced a daylight theft in which thieves used power tools and high-visibility jackets to break a second-floor window, access the Apollon gallery via a maintenance area, smash display cases and escape on motorbikes within seven minutes. Government audits repeatedly flagged outdated and vulnerable security systems, including a surveillance password of 'LOUVRE' and systems that could allow remote alteration of badge access and manipulation of video feeds. A 2014 confidential ANSSI report identified numerous vulnerabilities, a 2017 institute report noted serious deficiencies, and by 2019 paperwork suggested several core systems were beyond repair, leaving financial and reputational fallout.
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