There is a sticky in the CS forums now. Bad news is in there people quote an EU-CS post saying they are gone and can't be retrieved, but later backed down saying they were looking for a fix still (which made a lot more sense). He also said they would have something tonight (Morning US time) on the status. No US conformation of this yet.

US sticky
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...sid=1&pageNo=1

EU post
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....05251695&sid=1

So hopefully today we will find out.