Title: Database Problems after hack
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database Problems after hack

 *  [mariano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariano/)
 * (@mariano)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problems-after-hack/)
 * Hi there,
    sorry to bother you… two days ago I got hacked (and they made it really
   well, even deleting my backup disk etc.) despite that I got a .sql to recover
   my database (i’ll try to recover data as images and upload after this) and I 
   found two problems:
 * 1) Typical CHARSET problem: even when the .sql indicates that every tables is`
   ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=72796 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ;` when I see the site
   I got every single accent/character wrong like: “Denken Ãœber” instead of “Denken
   Über”
 * Any Idea on how to fix that?
 * 2) The backup and the new install have different table suffixes; i.e.: i used
   to use wp_users and the default install on my new hosting is blog_S23rs_users
   
   Question: Can I just change the table name or should I create the tables EXACTLY
   as in my backup? If so, how can I do that? 🙂
 * Many many thanks in advance
    mariano

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