On the VAC ban:
A Russian hacker gained access to my account, but he's out now. Beware if I've given weird links between November 7th and November 17th 2016.

Also the Russian was cheating on CS:GO while I was locked out of my account, so now I'm permanently VAC banned since "I have verifiable evidence that I was locked out and was waiting for you guys to help me" is not a valid excuse for Steam. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯