Question about League of Legends and hacking

My son’s League account has been ‘stolen’, the email/password changed. The hacker actually told some of his online buddies he’d ‘let the boy buy it back’. My son tells me there is software you can buy to enable hjacking accounts like this.
Any of you League players have any experience or advice for my son? He’s pretty pessimistic about trying to get the powers that be to restore his account to him, but he also tends to be a bit lazy “I’ll just open a new account and build it back up”. He says he has about $100 invested in the account, but there was no credit card info there to be stolen.
Mods, I know this could go in GQ but I figured my audience was here. Move it if you will.
Thanks, gang, for your thoughts.

Account hackers usually drain the account and move on, that he is talking to his friends is completely out of the ordinary. It might be someone he knows. Either way getting your account back should be a trivial matter, it happens in all games. Just contact the company and as soon as they verify the account is his they will do a password reset, it will probably involve having the original email account the account is based on and answering a secret question or other equally trivial hoops.

Make sure he doesn’t use that same password for anything else, like his email. MAke sure he changes any passwords that are the same or similar, and teach him about secure passwords. If it’s someone he knows, it’s likely that whoever did it was able to guess his password.

Above all else, absolutely 100% do not pay the thieves to get the original account back.

Thanks, Chronos, I should have made clear in OP that we would never do that.

Any word from the company about restoring his account?