Blizzard assured that it's "taking steps to resurrect player-characters that were lost as a result of these attacks".

Blizzard announced on March 24 its intentions to revive hardcore World of Warcraft Classic characters lost in a recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a malicious flooding of the game’s ...

Players must create and setup all characters before the tournament ... playing Call of Duty in his spare time, as well as World of Warcraft and any game he is obsessing over at the time.