How did a mechanical lift allow them to break into the Louvre, steal invaluable objects, and make off on motorcycles in broad daylight? Experts at the French Cybersecurity Agency easily got into the poorly secured network at the time to manipulate video surveillance and could even change who could access the system. Per Libération, a 40-page audit by the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Security and Justice concluded in 2017 that the Louvre’s security had “serious shortcomings” and “poorly managed” visitor flow. Things didn’t get better over the last ten years, with 2025 documents suggesting the Louvre was using security software it had purchased in 2003, running on hardware using the long-obsolete operating system Windows Server 2003. More on data security: Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows