Title: Cannot access site – users table is missing!
Last modified: February 28, 2017

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# Cannot access site – users table is missing!

 *  [leunerj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leunerj/)
 * (@leunerj)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-site-users-table-is-missing/)
 * Yesterday I couldn’t get into any of my three wordpress sites. Today, I can get
   into two of them but one of them cannot be accessed and I’m getting a message
   that my username is unknown. When I logged in to mySQL Database page, I discovered
   that my users table has been deleted. I’m having my page hosts look into this,
   but any ideas on how this could have happened? Was my site hacked or could this
   have been an internal problem with WordPress or one of the plugins?

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-site-users-table-is-missing/#post-8858263)
 * >  Was my site hacked
 * – The [Exploit Scanner](https://wordpress.org/plugins/exploit-scanner/) plugin
   can help detect.
    – Here is an another online scanner to check for exploits and
   malware: [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/).
   Other things you should do:
 * >  could this have been an internal problem with WordPress
 * This not the default behavior of the WP core to delete DB tables.
 * >  or one of the plugins?
 * Can’t tell. Could be

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## Tags

 * [hacked](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hacked/)
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/)
 * [table](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/table/)
 * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/)
 * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-site-users-table-is-missing/#post-8858263)
 * Status: not resolved

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