Account was hacked, having trouble retrieving.. need input

[Georgie]

Hello, I have a bit of a problem: my account was hacked and an authenticator was slapped on it. Now, I am not the original owner of the account; but I did not steal it or pay for it. It was given to me by my old friend who quit the game back in 2005. I've been playing on it ever since, paying for it with my own money, and so forth. But I am still not the original owner. However, when the battle.net merger was done, the battle.net account was tied to my email and name.

But here's the problem: with my account hacked, I put in a retrieval request and I'm in trouble because they're asking me to send them ID. But I haven't talked to this friend in years and I'm not even sure if I can get in touch with him. So I'm very potentially screwed.

What do I do? Do I just send them my ID since my name is tied to the battle.net account? I can't explain it to them, because having received the account as a gift is a TOS Violation and I won't ever get the account back. ANy help appreciated.

[XSilentiumX]

You just send them the battlenet ID, worked when my acc was hacked when the origonal was in my brothers name.

[Georgie]

Could this be because you have the same last name? I might not be so lucky.