Question about Outlook Express

Hi i hope someone can help me. i am literally at the end of my teather trying to get into my old hotmail account that was attacked by a virus a couple of months back. I desperately need to get into my old e-mails and now i have forgotton the password that i changed it to after the hacking took place.. and unfortunately it was an old number that was linked to the account. i have filled out numerous failed questionnaires to try get in.. i really didn't think it would be this hard.. im so stuck. is there anyway of contacting Hotmail/Microsoft or speaking to someone personally about this situation to try get these old e-mails? My account was linked to everything