Probably, but the issue stems from a combination of Turbine changing the item minimum level rules as much as the handful who either cheated with Cannith Crafting to make high level items no/low ML.
At one time, Race Restricted and Bound to Account items were 2 levels lower than normal, unbound versions of the loot gen. I use to farm Sharn Syndicate for these items, since I could occasionally get ML2 Moderate Fortification robes, and other useful low-level items. In addition, there was a bug with the reward generation code for Harbringer 2 chain, it would sometimes give no ML +6 stat rings and other powerful items. No one was cheating, since it was Turbine's own fault these items were generated.
They've since changed that, now only items generating with Masterful Craftsmanship are of lower ML. But the old items still remained, and usually Turbine has never retroactively changed items before. In U19, NGE, they did, causing my ML2 robes to be ML4, etc...
This means anyone, even though they were using random-gen loot and had not cheated, got hit with the buggy "burden of guilt".
I work tomorrow, so going to be a shortened session for me. I'm also probably going to be late, since I've been working 11 hours a day.