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Originally Posted by Jet
How do they know if their DBs were hacked or not?
There are sponsors who say that full DB dumps were made by the intruder.
There is no way for the sponsors to know what happened to the stolen DBs.
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Because the database password is not configurable via the admin and the encrypted string for the database password isn't even available via the admin for the "hacker" to try and decrypt it. Plus 95% of the time mysql databases are either IP restricted for access _or_ restricted solely to localhost for access.