I'm glad you got this fixed up. It can easily go south from there if you hadn't succeeded early on. Many years ago an old gmail email address of mine was used

I'm glad you got this fixed up. It can easily go south from there if you hadn't succeeded early on. Many years ago an old gmail email address of mine was used in spam messages. Instead of looking and seeing that those emails didn't even originate from my account, my account was locked. Side effects? My iPad became an expensive bookend because Apple stopped allowing me to update my software as soon as I no longer could authenticate with the registered account. I couldn't even reset it, since that requires said authentication. More than a decade later, and that account remains just as locked as the iPad... Both companies, imho, handled this in the worst way possible.