The surveillance system of the most famous museum in the world had as its password\u2026<\/a> LOUVRE. Who could have guessed!! Impossible!!<\/p>\nMeanwhile, NASA, yes, NASA was caught using combinations like \u201c123456\u201d or the classic \u201cpassword\u201d in internal accounts\u2026 Critical risks, security breaches, and more than one scare that could have been avoided with, let\u2019s say, a little more creativity.<\/p>\n
History repeats itself<\/p>\n
The French agency ANSSI had already warned that the Louvre\u2019s security was \u201cinsufficient to protect its collections\u201d and of course, if the password protecting the Mona Lisa could be guessed by a sleepy intern, well, that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n
It is estimated that 32% of employees at the 500 richest companies in the world use the company\u2019s name as their password, according to NordPass. And yes, the classics \u201c123456\u201d \u201cpassword\u201d and \u201cadmin\u201d continue to top the ranking of the worst passwords on the planet. Doesn\u2019t anyone have a bit of imagination?<\/p>\n
Mexico, NASA, and Sony<\/p>\n
In 2025, CobraEgyLeaks (a hacker) published on the dark web more than 156,000 combinations of emails and passwords. The most common ones, to no one\u2019s surprise, were \u201c123456\u201d, \u201cadmin\u201d and \u201c000000\u201d.<\/p>\n
And of course, Sony Pictures was not spared either. In 2014, hackers stole unreleased movies and internal emails because their passwords were as mind-blowing as \u201cSony123\u201d and \u201cpassword\u201d. Wow, security ffffirst.<\/p>\n
The cost of a bad password<\/p>\n
According to Verizon, 86% of web application attacks start with compromised credentials, and each breach costs companies an average of 4.45 million dollars\u2026 all because of not setting secure passwords!<\/p>\n
And the most worrying part is that 73% of people reuse the same password across multiple services, according to Microsoft. If one gets stolen, they all get stolen.<\/p>\n
Why are we like this?<\/p>\n
Because passwords are a hassle. Remembering them is a pain, creating them is tedious, and changing them\u2026 even worse. So we choose the easy route, even though we know we shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the \u201cI\u2019ll do it tomorrow\u201d culture applied to the keyboard, and the Louvre is no exception, of course.<\/p>\n
The future is taking another path<\/p>\n
Giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are already working to eliminate traditional passwords. \u201cPasskeys\u201d are trending, and they are encrypted, allowing you to log in without typing anything.<\/p>\n
Three basic things for your passwords<\/p>\n
Create unique and complex passwords.
\nEnable two-step verification.
\nDon\u2019t reuse passwords, even if it\u2019s a bit more work.
\nBe original, add capital letters, numbers, and symbols.<\/p>\n
From Paris to Houston, from museums to space centers, the biggest security hole isn\u2019t in technology, but in the human factor. You don\u2019t need an expert hacker to bring down a system; it\u2019s enough for someone to try \u201cpassword123\u201d. So, check your passwords, pay attention to them, and don\u2019t reuse them. You might not have the Louvre\u2019s jewels, but they do bring out something in you, sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems unbelievable, but neither the Louvre, with its millennia-old treasures, nor NASA, with all its space technology,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-250147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}