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 servers with request data by outside entities that caused widespread lag and, in some cases, even disconnections.

Over the last month or so, World of Warcraft has found itself on the receiving end of several DDOS attacks. These attacks, in which malicious attackers att

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