Oh, the backup email worked. But to restore it's not enough. You need either a) old password, SMS b) security question, email , date of account creation. And

Oh, the backup email worked. But to restore it's not enough. You need either a) old password, SMS b) security question, email , date of account creation. And I didn't update the phone number because I had stopped using the account, and had forgotten about it (but I also obviously didn't want anyone to spam in my name, or extract my data).