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My Paypal Account was Hacked. What should I do?

 To start off, I know the correct answer to this question is "call paypal". Except I am, and their offices are all closed for American thanks giving.
 
Basically I checked my email today, and saw I had tons of emails from Paypal saying I made payments, which I did not. I figured they were phishing attempts, so I logged into my account by typing the link myself. 
 
There is about 9 payments I apparently made to a person named "Brett Locke" and 3 payments to "Chris Hendricks". All of them are for the amount of 75$ USD. I never made any of these payments. They were made today at about lunch time, before I was even awake. The money was sent to email accounts, all of which I now have listed.
 
My bank account as well as credit card are tired to my Paypal account. He attempted to take the money from my bank account. However, in my bank account I only have 500$, all of which is frozen from when I recently got a credit card. As far as I can tell, I have not yet been charged anything, likely do this pre-existing money freeze. However, the idea that someone has all my bank account and credit card info, not to mention my password to paypal (which I have since changed) is terrifying. 
  
 As well, I can not contact Paypal at all because as I said, their phone simply says they're on holiday. So basically, there's nothing I can do right now. 
 
It does look like my account on Paypal is limited (it says so), and there also is 12 open disputes and claims (which were there before I did anything) and 9 claims requiring my action (clicking on them is confusing, it doesn't say what's going on or what I should do).  
 
Has anyone experienced this? What should I do? Should i contact my bank? (I live in Canada and it isn't thanksgiving here, so it might be ok?) Should I contact law enforcement?     

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