The Louvre’s security humiliation—reports that a surveillance server could be accessed with the password “LOUVRE”—has turned a sensational daytime robbery of the Galerie d’Apollon into a wider institutional reckoning over museum cybersecurity, procurement failures and the real-world consequences...
The audacity of the Apollo Gallery heist at the Louvre — a daylight smash-and-grab that removed Napoleonic-era crown jewels in under seven minutes — has been followed by an equally shocking discovery: internal audits and cybersecurity checks show the museum’s core security systems were protected...
