Recently, the Apache Foundation was hacked and compromised, but managed to limit it and bounce from it pretty quickly. Here’s a rundown of things that happened with their corrective actions. Useful for DIY administrators.
If you’re using the latest MAMP (1.7.2) …
If you’re using the latest MAMP (1.7.2) on your Mac for your development server, the easiest way to change the MySQL password would be /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password YOURNEWPASSWORD.