Two people had the account information, after NC-Soft contacted HC those people destroyed their copies of the database, search around here on this forum and you will find it, and it's not an ambiguous legal reason, it's illegal for anyone but NC-Soft to have that data in the US, EU, Canada and pretty much most other countries players are in. If the game had changed hands yes, maybe the database could have been transferred, though that is by no means guaranteed.