The forums for Path of Exile 2 have been awash with people claiming they’ve been hacked and their inventories emptied of valuable items. Now there’s an explanation for at least dozens of the account compromises.

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It was social engineering.

They compromised a Steam account via steam support to test its password and because it a linked they gained access and modified about 60 accounts.

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