Please, I can’t stress this enough, please make sure the email address set to your account is private.
Yeah should be a must for every User and i have done that since i am here at the first day !
Sad to hear and readed a bit of the Account that got hacked.
You can also check if your email was on a data breach here :
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Safe surfing & fuck hackers!
I agree with you on that fully