Title: Database keeps having issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Database keeps having issues

 *  [TomJohnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomjohnson/)
 * (@tomjohnson)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-keeps-having-issues/)
 * I’m having serious issues with a WP database. The content previously existed 
   in Expression Engine and was migrated to WordPress. Everything was fine until
   one day, someone hacked it to ground zero, deleting all the posts and pages.
 * I restored it and it was hacked again like this two more times. I decided to 
   stop using the database and exported the content from Tools > Export. Then I 
   created a new database, imported that file, completely deleted all the WP files
   and started over again.
 * Everything was fine for about 2 months until yesterday, the site seemed to lose
   about the last 100 posts and all pages. I’m not sure why. There wasn’t any sign
   of an attack this time — just missing pages. And unlike the previous issues, 
   only some of the posts were gone, not all.
 * I’m at a loss for understanding the database issue here. I pretty much did everything
   to clean up after a hack (started with a new database, started with totally new
   WP files, repaired/optimized the database tables, etc. Found no signs of additional
   users or anything). Now the site is completely restored.
 * But I fear the issue will happen again. One day, poof, half the database will
   disappear.
 * Could the problem be due to the structure of the content from the conversion 
   from Expression Engine to WordPress? I manage about a dozen wordpress sites and
   none of them have ever had this issue.
 * I’ve tried looking for malicious code in the theme, plugins, and have used the
   Security Scanner, Theme Authenticity Checker, WordPress Firewall, and other security
   tools I could find. Nothing.
 * The only thing strange is that some of the posts have this code:
 * > <p>By <script type=”text/javascript”>
   >  //<![CDATA[ var l=new Array(); l[0]=’
   > >’;l[1]=’a’;l[2]=’/’;l[3]='<‘;l[4]=’ 115′;l[5]=’ 100′;l[6]=’ 111′;l[7]=’ 111′;
   > l[8]=’ 87′;l[9]=’ 32′;l[10]=’ 97′;l[11]=’ 115′;l[12]=’ 105′;l[13]=’ 76′;l[14]
   > =’>’;l[15]=’\”‘;l[16]=’ 109′;l[17]=’ 111′;l[18]=’ 99′;l[19]=’ 46′;l[20]=’ 108′;
   > l[21]=’ 105′;l[22]=’ 97′;l[23]=’ 109′;l[24]=’ 116′;l[25]=’ 111′;l[26]=’ 104′;
   > l[27]=’ 64′;l[28]=’ 115′;l[29]=’ 100′;l[30]=’ 111′;l[31]=’ 111′;l[32]=’ 119′;
   > l[33]=’ 110′;l[34]=’ 97′;l[35]=’ 108′;l[36]=’ 97′;l[37]=’ 101′;l[38]=’ 100′;
   > l[39]=’ 108′;l[40]=’:’;l[41]=’o’;l[42]=’t’;l[43]=’l’;l[44]=’i’;l[45]=’a’;l[
   > 46]=’m’;l[47]=’\”‘;l[48]=’=’;l[49]=’f’;l[50]=’e’;l[51]=’r’;l[52]=’h’;l[53]=’
   > a ‘;l[54]='<‘; for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(
   > 0, 1) == ‘ ‘) document.write(“&#”+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+”;”); else document.
   > write(unescape(l[i])); } //]]> </script>
 * Does this mean anything to anyone?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-keeps-having-issues/#post-1307912)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/341269?replies=2#post-1313665](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/341269?replies=2#post-1313665)

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