I feel your pain, * you gotta go through. I'm interested to hear your resolution. So, I'm also posting a bullet point so IN CASE some individual comes by and reads it I can give them insight.
I haven't been on in about two or three years. I'm nearly sure my account was hacked back in the day, as I would see characters moved around and items missing. (or maybe I was on a bender and forgot what I did)
Either or, I had to go to the EA site and activate my email/username from there. that went to my old email, so I had to get that old email, and activate that. and then change everything to the new email (as that email is a toss away email)
Now, after that, I got the auto email I was TRYING to get earlier, (by signing into SWTOR but didn't get, till I activated the EA email, and now SWTOR is now active to)
The * thing is, I can't see ANYTHING of the account. Past history, transactions, I have an old invalid card on there and It keeps saying it will send me an email addressing the issue. I'm sure as not too many of us (or many of us) are coming back in light of Episode 7 they may be swamped, not swamped, or something is in error. Emails are working, but I don't have the time to sit on support with them as I got two full time jobs.
Did you ever receive this elusive email? After you got the account back? Or still not there yet? If this may help you or anyone else, cheers. If not, I'm in the same boat. I got a few guildies in another game that wanna run around here till new content is made.