Potential leak of data: Simple Password

Detected 1 occurrence(s) of ‘\s*pass[word]+\s*[:=]\s*["'][a-z0-9\-_\!\$]+["']‘: <?php $username = "root"; $password = "password"; $hostname = "localhost"; //connection to the database $dbhandle = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) or die("Unable to connect to MySQL"); echo "Connected to MySQL<br>"; ?> Source: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MAtr3dj9