2fa tip
if you use two factor authentication, one of those authentication is your email. if that email is also under a hackers control then your two factor authentication is null.
so i suggest making your email have two factor authentication also that you need to use the cell phone to authenticate that its you using the account your email is using. like gmail asks for authentication on the cell phone.
also if ea made this the default necessary to have a ea account for playing ea games, then maybe join services with the authenticators on the cell phone to see if previously banned people use the same authenticator for multiple accounts because setting up a cell phone with authenticators hard and probably not what the average loser wants to do in order to defraud non-cheaters/non-hackers in ea games.