Up until last month, most of us would have assumed that — with its thousands of priceless works of art and historic artifacts — the Louvre had some top-notch security measures in place. Of course, that was before four people broke into the museum in broad daylight and nabbed the French crown jewels. In the aftermath of the heist , a lot of questions have been asked about how something like this could have happened.
Well, it seems like it might have actually been pretty easy. Since the heist, it’s become apparent that the Louvre’s security system is not quite as tight as we thought. On Wednesday, a museum employee told ABC that the password to access the Louvre’s video surveillance system was pretty easy to crack. I’ll give you a second to guess what it was. Are you ready? Okay. It was

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