Account Roll back

#1 - Oct. 12, 2012, 8:05 p.m.
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As many other fellow players my account got Hacked 20 days ago, with extreme prejudice to my character and ego. 300 hours of gametime to waste but I managed my account back.
Now losing all my Gear, Gems, Gold and Bank I couldn’t even look at the character.
The next few days I kept searching the foruns and support for some way to get my stuff back ( as it happens with other MMO’s , because it is what customer support is for) and nothing conclusive was ever said only in the line of “we are trying to implement a roll back system soon”.
Now this “soon” was like one month ago. I think its time the support lend a hand to those who lost everything they had because the security system was as secure as vanilla Runescape.

Now my question is:
When will it be in place?
Is it an account roll back? ( meaning the progress you have made in this 30 days gone to waste aswell?)
Or you get the char + bank back to the point it was good? This last one would be the best since I already got an alt to 80 because I couldnt stand playing with my striped main.

I would realy apreciate some info for a change, and if my tone upsets you, you can imagine how upset I am myself…

#3 - Oct. 13, 2012, 11:24 p.m.
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We are working on several ways that we may be able to help with this situation, but the most relevant is the ARS (Account Restoration Service), a free system that is intended just for compromised accounts. The system maintains “snapshots” of your account and, upon a review of the situation and determination that a “roll-back” is the correct thing to do, the entire account is restored to a point immediately following the compromise incident.

This is account wide, not character- or item-based. And we hope to be able to offer this very soon.