You can easily put phpMyAdmin behind basic auth as an additional security layer, completely bypassing any PHP execution and letting the web server completely ha

You can easily put phpMyAdmin behind basic auth as an additional security layer, completely bypassing any PHP execution and letting the web server completely handle the authentication. It's exactly what I have done multiple times in the past. Arguably phpMyAdmin's direct integration is a less secure way of doing it, but do we even know if it's the basic auth itself that was bypassed, or was it just the case of a weak password?