I lost my Google account too. One day they just stopped letting me log in. They show me a text saying that to log in, I have to give them my phone number. Wel

I lost my Google account too. One day they just stopped letting me log in. They show me a text saying that to log in, I have to give them my phone number. Well, I don't want to give my phone number to Google. When I signed up, it was not stated anywhere that one day they might hold all my data randsom and blackmail me to give them my phone number.