Accounts back! UK success story

My Facebook account was disabled on the 4th December, same as everyone else here, hacked, posted bad content, which caused ban. My Insta and business pages were also linked, so they all went down. Tried every single method that has been posted on this group;
- Emailed all the many many emails people advised, several times, mainly had no response, or auto response
- Tried AG method, using VPN, heard back off P to say they had passed my info on to Facebook, chased again a few weeks later to be told they hadn't heard anything else
- Contacted ICO and Irish data commission, being a UK citizen, IDC finally got back to say it was an ICO issue, never heard back off the ICO
- I even lodged a complaints with action fraud, due to money being taken from my bank on 8 different occasions (from ads placed by the hacker) luckily I got this all back from the bank
- I tried the DPO method several times just to be told time and time again that they couldn't/wouldn't help as it wasn't there area, even when I stressed money had been taken.

- Finally (which I think is what worked) I contacted the DPO but said I want access to my data and that I don't have an account. I did this for both Facebook and instagram and heard back from both in less than 12 hours. I think it was the instagram one that pushed it through. I had several back and forth with them, and then today at about 6pm (UK time) I had the beautiful email finally come through!

just over 7 weeks in total I've been out. I've got back on and loads of ads been placed, I'll try and unpick it all tomorrow. I can't thank this group enough for being a massive support throughout all this, I definitely wouldn't have gotten my accounts back without it.