'Why won't phpmyadmin let me in (Ampps)?

I have a project, with a mysql database. I was using ampps to create a localhost server for mysql. It worked fine. I haven't changed anything. I was using the default root, mysql combinaton. Then after a few months, I wanted to test this old project. For some reason, phpmyadmin didn't let me log in with these credentials. What could have happened that caused the error? I'm totally clueless, since I didn't change a thing.



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