Grit

You're not alone. I'm unable to interact with any piece of environment/loot. Everything worked fine yesterday. After managing to survive a jump down the elevator well of an apartment building, I'm thinking about letting my character die to see if that fixes the problem..

There's nothing you can do aside from contacting Battleye. False-positive global bans simply don't happen, or if they do.. it's incredibly rare. You likely won't get any pity from the users of this forum, as hackers are hated with a red hot passion.

Try a bunch of private servers until you find one with a regular population and solid admins who don't abuse their power. Then try to stick to that hive in order to keep the gear you've collected. Staying logged in 24/7 isn't feasible for a variety of reasons. But you do want to log out in safe area, otherwise someone may kill you before you've completely spawned-in the next time. As far as hackers go, if you see 4+ player death notifications pop up in your side chat all at once.. be prepared to abort at a moment's notice. Likewise, if a hacker teleports you into the sky (which is something they love to do), quickly aborting can save you from death. Obviously you'll run into more hackers on the public hive.

Not all private servers are labeled as such.. which can be rather annoying at times. If you're using dayz commander (which I highly recommend), go into your "recent servers" list and make sure that you log-in to the same server that you were on when you originally collected that gear. Also, keep in mind that you're going to lose your progress A LOT in DayZ.. especially if you're in a public hive where hackers show up every 15 minutes. Get used to the idea of starting over on a regular basis.