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Re: Data vanishes from the same table frequentlynexkw
Posted by: Rick James
Date: July 31, 2014 10:46PM

> I'm a retired X computer software developer (main frame)

I started on the Burroughs 220; can you top that?

> > Why (and how!) would a hacker remove the all the data from the same table over such a long period?

There are known hacks that get to MySQL (and the entire filesystem) through PHP.

> All software has bugs, but one that spontaneously truncates a table would likely have been reported by now. Most commonly, problems like this are due to user cmds or scripts. Turn on the log.

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