It seems that hacked accounts have higher priority than lost accounts (ex. lost passwords) which makes sense, because there's the possibility that the account may be used for scamming. I remember it being mentioned a couple weeks ago here in the Meta section by a user who had his account both hacked, and then later forgot the password to the account after it was recovered. He said that his account was recovered much faster when it was hacked compared to when he lost the password to it.