Site Hacked – Logins Were Deleted

Setting up a new WP account in phpmyadmin would be difficult, but you can change the password for an exisiting account in phpmyadmin Resetting Your Password « WordPress Codex, no matter if it is one of the default “admin” accounts that WP always sets up, or an account under another login.

Phpmyadmin says you don’t have privledges becuase you don’t have privledges to create a new database on the hosting server; it has nothing to do with WP accounts or privledges. The error you’re getting in WP when you login saying you don’t have privledges is either a result of the way you tried to set up an account for WP through phpmyadmin or a file permission problem.

After you’re back in, I’d also replace all your WP files and also see How to Completely Clean a Hacked WordPress Install.

You can backup your theme and other files you’ve change via FTP, and export your database with phpmyadmin. Then do a clean install of WP and import your database. Then you can delete any other accounts that get imported with the database.

But I think you’re going to want to grep the database dump – as about in the “Completely Clean” link – to clean out anything else the hacker left behind.