Today I was on my site and all of a sudden received this message:

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Went to MySQL and my database was gone. Can anyone explain what might have happened. My service provider is restoring from backup, but let's face it this is a serious problem.

Mark

Your database was simply deleted? Sounds like

a) Host hacked
b) Host messing up
c) Exploit in your XOOPS with a database administrator account

If it is not the 2 first ones, I can only recommend that you in the future get a database account without database creation/deletion rights. XOOPS needs to be able to create, alter and remove tables, but the database user should not be permitted to create or remove databases.

XOOPS is quite secure, but there can never be 100% security - especially not with custom modules, which may open up for security risks.

I think it appears to be a matter of number 2 above. System was restored to within just a few mintues of the database loss which makes me think it may have happened during backup. Thanks for your response.

Mark

this happens sometimes on my site, when the service provider does a daily backup of the databases.. for a few mins the database is unavailable..

they continually monitor our site and do backups at optimum times based on our access logs so they don't backup at busy times of the day..