A police car parks in the courtyard of the Louvre museum, one week after the robbery. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

When thieves broke into the Louvre in Paris last month and made off with $102 million worth of jewels, they didn’t just expose a hole in France’s most famous museum, they laid bare a shocking lapse in its digital defences.

At the time of the brazen seven-minute robbery, the password protecting the Louvre’s video surveillance system was simply “Louvre,” a museum employee has revealed, ABC reported.

The revelation comes as French lawmakers press the museum’s leadership for answers over how one of the world’s most secure cultural landmarks was breached so easily.

Testifying before a French Senate committee, Louvre president and director Laurence des Cars admitted that the muse

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