Path of Exile - Page 328

On February 22 2013 02:28 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


How do they get your email? Do they just pick random emails to brute force and hope they have a PoE account?

On February 22 2013 03:52 danl9rm wrote:


That's the same question I had. I figure since it's a junk email account, it ended up on some list somewhere that the hacker was privy to.

Actually, the very first thing I thought was, "Wait, is my email address available in game?"

So, just like always, if you have a decent-length password and it's not a word in the dictionary, it's not the same pass as on another site or game, and you don't share your info with anyone else, you're probably just fine. This is all assuming you don't have a virus, though :p

On February 22 2013 02:48 Ryalnos wrote:
Phishing can get pretty clever, by the way. There's plenty of awful/blatant scams (you've won $1000). It's pretty obvious that someone isn't going to give away something for free, so those are fairly easy to spot.

There's a few out there that can catch you if you're not aware of them. This one time I received an email, apparently from Amazon.com, which appeared to be an order confirmation for some expensive necklace or something which I of course had no memory of buying. Let me just say that it was a pretty good imitation of the typical email Amazon sends. My first worry was that my account had been compromised, so that I might have missed that the email itself was intended to get the info for my account. Gmail had flagged the email in my spam box, so I checked the plausible-looking link and found that it did not lead where it claimed.

However, I idly wonder if I would have clicked through in confusion/worry if Gmail had not alerted me... I'd like to think I would have checked the url/verified that it was a secure connection straight to Amazon.com, but there's a nagging doubt.

It could be that this sort of phishing is common in D3/WoW/etc., but it was the first time I'd encountered it directly...

On February 22 2013 03:54 Vallelol wrote:


Had a unique password with a lot of different letters and numbers (20+) and didn't share it with anyone, did some scans today, but found nothing

On February 22 2013 03:54 Vallelol wrote:


Had a unique password with a lot of different letters and numbers (20+) and didn't share it with anyone, did some scans today, but found nothing

On February 22 2013 04:04 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


There is no way they brute forced a 20 character password so either you're lying or they got it some other way that you want to discover.

Sorry man. If it's any consolation then, you make me feel better that I'm not alone, hah. Man, being stolen from feels awful. It's like I walked in to see my bed all disheveled (ok, let's be honest, that's normal), then realizing someone had been in there looking for something. My items were all displaced and all my pricey orbs were gone. t.t

On February 22 2013 04:06 Obstikal wrote:
an in game friend of mine just got hacked this morning.. he had about 15character password of info only him and his fiance or relatives would know but still got broken into

also what is brute force??

On February 22 2013 04:08 AllHailTheDead wrote:
hmmm ive heard a lot of people have been hacked lately


maybe the game was hacked and people stole passwords out of the database?

On February 22 2013 04:16 danl9rm wrote:


Even if they managed that, the database shouldn't do them any good as they should all be encrypted and worthless without the key to decode them.

On February 22 2013 04:24 Fawkes wrote:

Under the assumption that it is encrypted. Not saying anything or blaming anybody.

On February 21 2013 16:38 Archers_bane wrote:


No it doesnt!


I think I found a bug, the perandus blazon belt (+20% flask duration) doesn't work on quicksilvers/granites. Not sure if its working as intended, but I dont see why not?

Also, since I got the minus ES cooldown nodes which gave me +EV% rating, I think I am going to hybrid it up as my frost witch and get all EV/ES gear. Is it every 100 EV = 1% chance to dodge?

On February 22 2013 06:14 Fawkes wrote:
What did they fix with LoH? Granted I use LoH with Split and not LA, what happened?

On February 22 2013 05:44 Spazer wrote:

Evade % isn't constant throughout the game. The amount of evasion you'll need to achieve, say, a 50% evade rate on the character stat page will increase as the level of mobs increases. So you can't conclusively say that 100 EV = 1% chance to dodge or anything like that.

Also bear in mind that some mobs have better accuracy than others, so the number shown on the stat page can be quite misleading. For example, you might have 50% evade against trash mobs, but against bosses, you might have something like 35%.