My account is important to me and I never said I abandoned my account, I do regularly login and read the forum. I didn't knew I would be banned hours after I changed my password to secure it.
2FA account protection is a thing here in this forum since theymos posted the
announcement on evening of 2023-12-21. Sure, you might have missed that announcement but you should have seen the option to setup 2FA on the password change page when it was actually you who changed your password.
When you have a suspicion or signs that your account got hacked, why not bother to activate 2FA? How does your story add up here?