Title: database wp fields gone?
Last modified: April 13, 2023

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# database wp fields gone?

 *  Resolved [lemongrenade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemongrenade/)
 * (@lemongrenade)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-wp-fields-gone/)
 * Hi,
 * I checked one of my installs today to see all the outbound links were adding 
   the domain at the start and various things were not as they were.
 * I hadn’t added anything new so checked the database to see all the wp_ fields
   were now NDrNig7 at the start of each table. Every one of them.
   Would this signify
   a database corruption or a hack, and what would be the best way to fix this?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-wp-fields-gone/#post-16653638)
 * If you are unsure whether your pages have been hacked, you can check them with
   Wordfence: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/).
 * What you describe to the tables is the prefix, which should always be set in 
   WordPress and is defined via the wp-config.php. You can change this via security
   plugins during operation, but you don’t have to. That an attacker does something
   like that I have never seen.
 *  Thread Starter [lemongrenade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemongrenade/)
 * (@lemongrenade)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-wp-fields-gone/#post-16655214)
 * Thanks [@threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/) I ran Wordfence
   and all looks okay. I think its just how the tables are set as another install
   has something other than wp_ too!

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 * Last reply from: [lemongrenade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lemongrenade/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-wp-fields-gone/#post-16655214)
 * Status: resolved

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