My email address – the one I have been using for nearly 10 years – has been hacked and I can’t access any of my emails, or any of the files or messages I have been storing there. I signed up when I was a lot younger and wilder. All subsequent, more respectable, email accounts have fallen by the wayside and I have grown to love and feel affectionate for my silly, durable, massive, old, favourite email account; the first account I ever set up and the only one that has remained through countless house-moves and life-changes. It seems silly, perhaps, to have such affection for an email account, but it’s like a private corner of the world that I go to, where all my favourite letters are stored and now it’s like I can’t go in there and someone IS in there doing I don’t know what with my files, emails and bits of cyber-information and it’s like being burgled. Only if it were really a burglar I could call the police and as it is all I can do is email microsoft live support and wait hours in between replies.

I feel absolutely awful and I’m really sorry if anyone I know has received messages apparently from me that were offensive or spam; they were not from me. Since yesterday evening, I cannot send anything from felixbadanimal@hotmail.com

If you are the hacker, why?