Thanks for the response,
I would be simply happy if the hacked toons had their main set of gear back. Unfortunately I had 3 batter hilts sitting on various toons, none of those have been recovered. The only toons they really had a decent restore on was the transferred toons but my hunter (one of the transferred toons) does not have any of his pets and is also missing his weapons.
I agree that it is very frustrating but with 13 80s and only 4 now really playable, that is a really sucky restore.