LeHACK 2026 brings lockpicking demos and wargame to Paris
LeHACK’s all-night lockpicking wargame and Red Team Alliance demo made Paris a hands-on stop for physical security, not just a conference hall.
LeHACK 2026 turned lockpicking into one of the clearest signals that Paris still had a live, hands-on hacker scene. The Red Team Alliance workshop ran June 27 from 13:00 to 16:00 in Workshop Room 4, while the public program also billed a “LOCKPICKING NINJAS ALL NIGHT” wargame as part of the weekend’s overnight schedule.
The conference ran at Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, 30 avenue Corentin Cariou in Paris 75019, from Friday, June 26 through Saturday, June 27, with programming stretching into Sunday morning. LeHACK said badges were valid for two days and reception opened both mornings for pickup, a practical setup that matched an event designed for long hours on site. Food and drink were available, transit access came via Metro Line 7 and nearby tram and bus stops at Porte de la Villette, and there was no cloakroom or locker, a detail that fit the all-day, all-night flow of the venue.
The lockpicking track itself leaned into physical-security access rather than technique alone. The LeHACK lockpicking page said Red Team Alliance brought live demonstrations, conversations with the team and a look inside a profession few people ever got to see. That same name had already appeared in LeHACK’s 2025 workshop lineup, which gave the 2026 appearance a clear continuity with the event’s recent programming rather than a one-off novelty. Red Team Alliance was formed in 2017 by two consultancies, and in 2025 it expanded region-specific training programs for Europe and Australia.
LeHACK’s broader structure made that lockpicking presence feel native to the event. The 2026 edition, branded “Brave New World,” paired conferences and workshops with a hardware village, live bug bounty activity, rumps, the all-night lockpicking wargame and a mobile Confessional. The live bug bounty with YesWeHack ran from Friday at 13:00 to Saturday at 20:00, reinforcing the conference’s bias toward live practice over passive listening.
That mix was rooted in LeHACK’s own history. The event said it was initiated in 2003 by Hackerz Voice and inspired by DEF CON, and it described itself as one of the oldest French underground hacker events. In Paris, that legacy showed up in the details that mattered most to attendees moving between a workshop room, a hardware village and an overnight wargame: the lockpicking corner was not parked at the edge of the schedule, but embedded in the center of the weekend.
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