

Don’t look for a cracked version of Navicat. Someone else might take control over the system, and modify the data, leak it out, or delete the entire database. What if the hacker injected a small script that simultaneously sends your database credentials to a secret server without your consent?

To be more specific, when you start a connection to your database, you first have to enter the database credentials, right? Let’s say you enter it correctly and connect successfully, then you might not be aware of something suspicious behind the scene. It’s like you are dealing with a thief, which you receive a gift from him and in exchange for your house’s key. Who can be sure that the broken part is not something harmful?

If you are not using the original copy from the app publishers, someone already broke a certain part of the app and inject their code into it.
