Title: Decoding Password in phpAdmin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Decoding Password in phpAdmin

 *  [chad_coleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chad_coleman/)
 * (@chad_coleman)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-password-in-phpadmin/)
 * I was recently hacked into, somehow… and the scum changed my password in WP 1.2.
 * So I logged into phpAdmin, to browse the database, and see if I could manually
   change the password.
 * The password is encoded, and I was wondering if anyone knew where or how I could
   decode it. I searched around php.net, and mysql.com, and coulden’t seem to find
   what I was lookin for.
 * Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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 *  [Mikael Boldt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boldt/)
 * (@boldt)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-password-in-phpadmin/#post-226395)
 * Look here: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/)
 * regards
 * Mikael Boldt
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-password-in-phpadmin/#post-226397)
 * The string is a MD5 encoded string and should be very hard to decode, at least,
   that’s the idea. 🙂
 * Rather than trying to decode it, just create a new password. Edit your username
   entry in phpMyAdmin and next the user_pass entry, choose the Function MD5 and
   then enter a password in plain text and Save the entry.
 * When you view your entry again, the MD5 encoded string will apepar.
 * Regards
 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-password-in-phpadmin/#post-226398)
 * For guide to the above, see here ( Through PHPMyAdmin):
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password](http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password)
 *  Thread Starter [chad_coleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chad_coleman/)
 * (@chad_coleman)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-password-in-phpadmin/#post-226404)
 * Thanks Mike. It worked.
 * Only thing… It only works when I use the exisiting password. When I try to use
   a new password, it won’t work. Then when I go to profile, and try to change the
   password there… it auto-logs me out after changing it… and no password will work,
   so i have to go back to phpmyadmin.
 * So now im forced to use the same password that was hacked.
 * Does this happen to you, too? Or is it just me?

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 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)
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 * Last reply from: [chad_coleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chad_coleman/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-password-in-phpadmin/#post-226404)
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