If you took over philakone account, then you know his e-mail address. To give him his account back it's as simple as changing back the e-mail to the original one, so he can use the forgot password function and get it back...
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Oh I see that steemit has no "forgot password" function... nevertheless you could have restored the e-mail address and send him the new password. Why didn't you do that is up for debate...