What happened to my Microsoft account?

When I went to the website, it said my account did not exist

Hello Philip, sorry to hear that you're facing this issue accessing your Minecraft account. I understand how concerning that can be!

It sounds like your account might have been compromised or there’s an issue with the account status.

I recommend trying the Microsoft account recovery form to regain access:

https://account.live.com/acsr

Be sure to provide as much information as possible to help verify your identity and recover your account.

Also, this article from Microsoft Support may be helpful to you:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

Let me know if you have any other questions, I'm happy to help you in any way that I can.

Thanks for your reply. This is a common issue when accounts have been compromised and the primary email changed. Please see the response from CeCe D. in this thread:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com...

What sounds like happened is the email you thought was associated with TheElf555 is not the email you signed in with. and when you went to xbox.com and signed in with that particular email it created a new xbox profile for that email.

The best way to figure out what email is associated the theelf account is to contact xbox support by going to support.xbox.com/contact-us and provide them that gamertag and if they can verify the ownership of that account they can provide you with the email
associated with it.

yeah, i changed my password as soon as i got back home, but it's just strange, my old password was near impossible for anyone to have figured it out, it was more than 35 characters long. and yeah....i'm sure Xbox Support won't be a help to me, they never
have been in the past. i guess it's my only option though. :/