Hi.

I am the owner of the "shaw1" bitcointalk user account.

On July 14th, someone tried to hack my account.
They logged in, changed the email, and then reset my password.

These triggered email alerts.

I saw those within a few hours, and followed the link to lock my account.
I figured this was going to be some colossal pain, and I have procrastinated on doing this, but I've gotta get this taken care of, sooner or later.

So my question is how do I go about restoring my account?
The problem, as I see it, was that my password was too short, and had been used on a couple of other sites.
I don't have an address posted with any signed messages, or anything, but I have my original email address, control of web projects I have posted here, and could get friends to vouch for me on the BTCPOP platform.

First time being hacked, so any help would be appreciated.