Created Master Password, now neither User password or Master Password work

Hi the
I've suspected somene to remotely hack into my Macbook because recently it would open finder windows for nothing. Then some of my Gmail mails disappeared so I decided to change password.
I headed to security and saw the "create Master Password" option so I entered my User password and created a Master Password.
Then when trying to change the user password to allow system preference change, the "old" user password didn't but the Master Password didn't either. I tried to then change this Master Password, but it's not working either. It's like my two password suddenly vanished when trying to secure my Mac!
Why? And how can I retrieve or change my passwords again?

Update: I did the boot screen manipulation to change the administrator as indicated here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwc7__sceWA
AND IT STILL DOESN'T ******* WORK.
This has to be the less secure thing I've seen on a Macbook. ***

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