Taken the technical "knowledge" he has shown so far there's no way he encrypted the password. And finding the above link shouldn't take more then 10 seconds if you actually search for it. So, yet another lie.
Encrypting the password doesn't matter - it would only be an issue if the data in the database was encrypted.
Does ANYONE actually do that?
Does MySQL even have that as an option?
I don't know coz I can't stand MySQL, it's a cheap-ass, crappy, LQ database that started off as a text file and even now still lets you read and write text files while still claiming that it's a database.
Damn, I was using Digital Rdb back in the late 1980's/early 90's up to just before Oracle bought it from Digital and that is still better than MySQL today ... IMO.