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Louvre Used ‘Louvre’ as Password Before €88 Million Jewel Heist: Report
The $102 million jewel theft revealed outdated security including trivial passwords and delayed modernization; only $3.5 million of $95 million needed was spent over six years, auditors found.
- On October 19, a four-member gang raided the Louvre Museum, Paris, stealing $102 million in crown jewels from the Apollo Gallery in seven minutes using a truck-mounted basket lift.
- France's national cybersecurity agency reported trivial passwords like `LOUVRE` and `THALES` exposed surveillance servers, while the Sathi programme by Thales ran unupdatable on Windows Server 2003.
- The four suspects arrested last week used a truck-mounted mechanical ladder and power tools to break into the Apollo Gallery, with DNA recovered and partial admissions from a taxi driver, 39, and a garbage collector, 34.
- Following the audit, Culture Minister Rachida Dati ordered the Louvre to accelerate security upgrades, estimated at 83 million euros , with only 3 million euros invested 2018–2024.
- Earlier this year the Louvre New Renaissance plan launched, with actual technical work scheduled to start next year and modernisation estimated to cost up to 800 million euros .
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The Court of Auditors' report considers that the management of the museum "has favoured visible and attractive operations to the detriment of the maintenance and renovation of buildings and technical installations, including safety and security".
A ‘deafening wake-up call’: Louvre heist exposes glaring security gaps, says France audit chief
PARIS, Nov 6 — Last month’s spectacular Louvre heist, in which robbers made off with some of France’s crown jewels, was a “deafening wake-up call” for museum security, the head of France’s highest audit institution said Thursday.Upgrades to security at the world-renowned museum have been moving at a “woefully inadequate pace”, Pierre Moscovici told a press conference to present the audit court’s report on the Paris museum.Instead, the museum has…
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