My hotmail account was hacked, I am not sure exactly of when.

I tried to go through the account recovery several times and spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to recover it with no luck.  Now, it is quite some time later and I really need some of the email documents that were saved in that account.

I am told that after a certain number of days the accounts are deleted. I have two questions:
1.) How can I figure out when the last time was that I logged in so that I can be sure?
2.) Is there any hope of getting my email account back and a possibility that the account is hosted somewhere on the system?

Any help would be a real life saver here.

Thank you.