Hacked is a big word, hackers have a BIG knowledge, and if the mysql database of your web site is not secure, even a beginner can connect to your database and easily add, edit, and delete your data. They can even delete the WHOLE mysql database!!
You need to be aware of this!! In internet you can find a big amount of unsecure sites, and they are public in google, because google indexes them if you don’t specifically say to google to not do it. You can use robots.txt or the .htaccess file, so that google doesn’t index the mySQL inc files.
Let’s have a search in google and you will see what I am talking about; type in google the following sentence filetype:inc intext:mysql_connect
The result is a big list of web sites with the inc files indexed in google, with the username and password of the users of the databases, for example the root user.
Be secure…
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