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“The €88 Million Password: How the Louvre and McDonald’s Proved That Security Theatre Is Worse Than No Security At All”

Two global institutions. Two absurd passwords. One damning pattern that reveals why 94% of organisations are sitting on time bombs they know about but refuse to fix

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Alan Robertson
Nov 06, 2025
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When France’s cybersecurity agency walked into the Louvre in 2014, they needed precisely six letters to breach the world’s most visited museum: L-O-U-V-R-E.

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