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It might as well have been “password.”
A probe into the broad daylight heist at the Louvre revealed the world-renowned museum had used a mind-bloggingly weak password for its core security systems, according to a report.
France’s National Cybersecurity Agency was able to access a server managing the museum’s video surveillance using the ridiculously easy password, “LOUVRE,” according to confidential documents obtained by Libération.
The namesake password was first revealed by the agency in a 2014 audit. Subsequent audits found “serious shortcomings” in the Paris museum’s security systems — including the use of two-decade-old software.
This security network is where “the museum’s most critical protection and detection equipment is connected,” the cybersecurity agency, known as ANSSI, wrote in a 2014 audit.
“An attacker who manages to take control of it would be able to facilitate damage or even theft of artworks,” the agency said, per the outlet.
It’s not immediately clear if the world’s most visited museum had changed passwords since the audit — including before the heist.
The Louvre did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
It took thieves less than eight minutes to steal France’s crown jewels during a daring daytime heist valued at $102 million on Oct. 19.
A four-man crew busted into the famed museum wearing yellow vests and motorcycle helmets.
Using a cherry picker, the thieves scaled the museum’s Apollo Gallery and smashed into glass displays with chainsaws as terrified guests looked on.
They then snatched eight pieces of prized gems, including a sapphire diadem, necklace, and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense.
The brazen robbers descended back down using the same cherry picker before trying to burn the bucket truck in the process of their escape, as they fled on two scooters parked nearby.
Four suspects, including three believed to be a part of the team of burglars, have been caught by authorities and handed preliminary charges.
Some of the alleged thieves are known by police for past robberies and are believed to have conducted the high-profile heist on commission.
