I have been in contact with Adam about this situation partly because I had gone through a similar hack attack of my account at about the same time that Adam did.

You are correct that you can get your account back, as long as you are able to go through various efforts in order to prove your identity - and maybe even if you may not meet some of the account recovery requirements.   It seems that Adam had made some preliminary attempts to get his account back, but he ran across various difficulties proving his identity.  He asserts that he may be having additional difficulties because of some of the shit stirring and trolling that he had admittedly been doing - but really, I doubt that he was so obnoxious and/or repugnant that the admins would not reinstate his account.  I think that he just needs to be persistent and to go through the efforts (and hoop jumping if needed) in order to get his account reinstated (and currently (so far), he does not seem to be willing to go through such efforts).

By the way, in early November, I had another issue of losing access to my account (because stupidly I used the secret phrase feature in order to attempt to access my account when I could not remember my password).  It took nearly a month for me to regain access to my account- so I understand that sometimes it can take quite a while to get the attention of bitcointalk administrators, and only a few of them have sufficient access authority to reinstate accounts.