The recent heist at the Louvre, in which jewelry worth around €88 million (US$101 million) was stolen from the museum in broad daylight, has revealed glaring weaknesses in the museum's security systems. According to the French publication Libération [machine translated], a security audit by the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) in 2014 reported that the museum’s video surveillance system’s password was ‘LOUVRE.'
The same audit revealed that another system, built by defense and cybersecurity company Thales, used ‘THALES’ as its access credentials. Additionally, the museum's automation network also used computers that were equipped with Windows 2000 operating systems — making them vulnerable, as Microsoft stopped support for Windows 2000 in 2010.
