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		<title>Louvre’s Surveillance System Password At Time Of Jewel Theft Was Dumber Than You Can Imagine</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This makes a password like “1234” look genius. An employee of the Louvre in Paris, France, has revealed the password of the museum’s surveillance system at the time of the jewelry heist last month, and it’s pretty bad. The password was “Louvre,” a staffer with knowledge of the system told ABC News Wednesday. Yup, you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This makes a password like “1234” look genius.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An employee of the Louvre in Paris, France, has revealed the password of the museum’s surveillance system at the time of </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-eu-france-louvre-jewel-heist-paris_n_68f4e2e1e4b085924979cdf6" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="the jewelry heist last month" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="68f4e2e1e4b085924979cdf6" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the jewelry heist last month</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and it’s pretty bad.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The password was “Louvre,” a staffer with knowledge of the system </span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/password-louvres-video-surveillance-system-louvre-employee/story?id=127236297" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="told ABC News Wednesday" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://abcnews.go.com/International/password-louvres-video-surveillance-system-louvre-employee/story?id=127236297" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told ABC News Wednesday</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yup, you read that right: “Louvre.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The French outlet </span><a href="https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/louvre-en-mot-de-passe-logiciels-obsoletes-mises-a-jour-impossibles-dix-ans-de-failles-dans-la-securite-informatique-du-premier-musee-au-monde-20251101_RD5YGV6WMVAXLL6U3SRGVFBIBY/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Libération" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/louvre-en-mot-de-passe-logiciels-obsoletes-mises-a-jour-impossibles-dix-ans-de-failles-dans-la-securite-informatique-du-premier-musee-au-monde-20251101_RD5YGV6WMVAXLL6U3SRGVFBIBY/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Libération</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> first reported on the password, citing confidential documents. The outlet claims </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11514061/louvre-heist-suspect-social-media-abdoulaye-n/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="the password was initially unearthed" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://globalnews.ca/news/11514061/louvre-heist-suspect-social-media-abdoulaye-n/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the password was initially unearthed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by France’s National Cybersecurity Agency during an audit in 2014. And we suppose no one bothered to update it since then with something with more characters, numbers and symbols, like </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://youtu.be/RQa7SvVCdZk?t=50" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="v0ulez-v0u$ c0ucher @vec m0i" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://youtu.be/RQa7SvVCdZk?t=50" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4"><span style="font-weight: 400;">v0ulez-v0u$ c0ucher @vec m0i</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It should be noted that it is unclear if the password ever came into play during last month’s heist — in which thieves stole </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louvre-heist-update-paris-prosecutor_n_69032c98e4b017cd270efde2" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="$102 million" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="69032c98e4b017cd270efde2" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$102 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/priceless-objects-stolen-from-the-louvre_n_68f657a4e4b02184e56efc0c" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Napoleonic jewels" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="68f657a4e4b02184e56efc0c" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="6"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Napoleonic jewels</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in minutes and while tourists were inside by using a basket lift, forcing open a window and going hog wild in the museum’s Apollo Gallery. </span></p>
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<div class="img-sized"><picture class="lazyload"><source type="image/webp" data-srcset="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cec862300009191be2753.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp 1x, https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cec862300009191be2753.jpeg?ops=scalefit_1440&amp;format=webp 2x"><img decoding="async" class="img-sized__img landscape" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="auto" alt="French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on Oct." width="720" height="480" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" data-src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cec862300009191be2753.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale" data-srcset="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cec862300009191be2753.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale 1x, https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cec862300009191be2753.jpeg?ops=scalefit_1440 2x"></picture></div>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the fun tidbit of information comes amid concerns surrounding the famed institution’s security, with The </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paris-police-acknowledge-major-gaps-in-louvres-defenses-after-jewel-theft_n_6902174ce4b0cb45b16f006c" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="Associated Press reporting at the time" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="6902174ce4b0cb45b16f006c" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Associated Press reporting at the time</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the cartoonishly executed robbery that Louvre employees were complaining of worker and security understaffing. Paris police have even acknowledged that the security at the Louvre </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paris-police-acknowledge-major-gaps-in-louvres-defenses-after-jewel-theft_n_6902174ce4b0cb45b16f006c" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="was pretty outdated" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="6902174ce4b0cb45b16f006c" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">was pretty outdated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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<div class="img-sized"><picture class="lazyload"><source type="image/webp" data-srcset="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cecfa18000033a80409a4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&amp;format=webp 1x, https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cecfa18000033a80409a4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_1440&amp;format=webp 2x"><img decoding="async" class="img-sized__img landscape" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="auto" alt="Empress Eugénie&#039;s tiara was stolen. Here it is exhibited at the Louvre Museum on April 27 in Paris, France." width="720" height="480" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" data-src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cecfa18000033a80409a4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale" data-srcset="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cecfa18000033a80409a4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale 1x, https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/690cecfa18000033a80409a4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_1440 2x"></picture></div>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During testimony before a French Senate committee last month, Laurence des Cars, the president and director of the Louvre, said that the only camera installed outside the Apollo Gallery did not capture footage of the window where the thieves broke in and exited, per ABC News. Des Cars said the museum’s perimeter security was weak “due to underinvestment.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He added that he was “appalled” by the museum’s security when he took the role in 2021, and that it has been one of his “top priorities.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the investigation into the theft churns on, </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louvre-heist-update-paris-prosecutor_n_69032c98e4b017cd270efde2" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="authorities have yet to find the missing jewels" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="69032c98e4b017cd270efde2" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="9"><span style="font-weight: 400;">authorities have yet to find the missing jewels</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, even though </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/europe/louvre-museum-robbery-suspects-investigation.html#:~:text=How%20many%20suspects%20have%20been,who%20broke%20into%20the%20museum." role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="four suspects have been charged" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="690ccd44e4b0799004d39782" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/europe/louvre-museum-robbery-suspects-investigation.html#:~:text=How%20many%20suspects%20have%20been,who%20broke%20into%20the%20museum." data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="10"><span style="font-weight: 400;">four suspects have been charged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in connection with the robbery.</span></p>
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