I can only imagine that when the board was hacked and they though some data may have been lost
What... no. It was your fault either way as there has been no announcement that the forum has been hacked, neither have many users lost their credentials for unknown reasons. Coincidental though, most of the hacked accounts seem to have been posting only in Altcoin section
Anyway, account recovery is pretty low on theymos' priority list because it is usually the user's fault somehow. Think of account recovery as a favor instead
P.S: theymos is online atm
Also, tagging the account after verifying the signature