RE: @samstonehill has been hacked & cannot be re-accessed. How did this happen & what are the solutions?

Nothing to be worried about. Events like this serve to highlight problems which devs then find the solutions to.

Two things have already changed which will help this platform grow stronger.

The wording in the registration process now makes it 100% clear that the email address used to confirm the account needs to be recorded for situations like this.
A bot has been created by @arcange to send wallet messages to anyone who receives a wallet message from a known scammer.

Ensuring that scammers will have to look elsewhere to do their dirty work.