Thieves Snatch Crown Jewels Using Louvre Password

Napoleon’s crown jewels were swiped from the Louvre in under eight minutes because the museum’s cybersecurity was stuck in the early 2000s—with passwords like "LOUVRE" and ignored warnings for nearly a decade. Thieves just showed up in generic maintenance gear, walked right past digital and physical cracks that experts had flagged but leadership chose to ignore. This wasn’t a slick heist; it was the ultimate fail of institutional negligence.