Found a copy of the WordPress database in public directory of two different websites on the same server

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I have no idea how this happened, but I suspect either ManageWP placed them there during a restore process from a backup performed a few months back. But in two different websites, there was a full backup of the entire DB SQL file just sitting in the public directory.

Once I realized this I deleted them. But how could this have happened? The file names were appended with random strings of text like… db_name_backup_9338838383.sql

My other concern is if anyone could have downloaded these databases by somehow viewing the content of the directory.

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