Windows 11 Bitlocker Activated on my clean install of Windows 11 install and locked me out suddenly today

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Today, I booted up my laptop, which I had performed a clean install on about 5 days ago, Although I had been using it without any issues untill now, I discovered that Bitlocker had encrypted my device. I found the recovery key in my Microsoft account was set around the same time I booted up the laptop. I don't have an Azuread acount, and Im running Windows 11 Pro version 23H2. Was bitlocker activated by default after the clean install ? Could this be a malicious attack?

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