Title: Encrypt database for backups?
Last modified: April 14, 2021

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# Encrypt database for backups?

 *  [Alwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-opti/)
 * (@wp-opti)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypt-database-for-backups/)
 * Hello, I use a plugin to send website en database backups to Amazon S3. I am 
   not backing up the wordpress core files, so the wp-config file is not in my backups.
 * So the database username/password (in wp-config) is also not in my backups.
 * Do I still need to encrypt my database backup? Is there any thing a hacker can
   do with a database file without having the username/password?
 * Thanks 🙂

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 *  Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encrypt-database-for-backups/#post-14317644)
 * Your db contains all the text content of your site, its settings, user accounts(
   with password hashes),
    in case you’re using some plugins – its settings can 
   be very sensitive, customer data, payment gateway data, SMTP plugin email account
   data
 * If you can encrypt that – its fine. But it should be done in a secure way, symmetric
   encryption shouldnt be considered secure, PGP would be fine, if you can.

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 * [encryption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encryption/)

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