During an interview earlier this week, developer Grinding Gear Games revealed that around 66 Path of Exile 1 and 2 accounts were hacked after an act of social engineering exploited an old Steam profile—one that was both linked to an admin account and, crucially, forgotten about and unsecured.
The full extent of the damage has been revealed in a post to the Path of Exile forums, which further explains that the Steam account in question "was a regular Steam account and had no purchases, phone numbers, addresses or other information associated with it," meaning that "the only information that they were required to supply was the email, account name and be using a VPN from the same country."
