As far as I know there is no option available here to delete our accounts.Nukes are only for the newbies with extreme spams.
But there is no need for it since you already changed the password and also change email if possible and use the current recovery method if your account got locked from the old email.
The thing is I wasn't locked out or anything, as far as I can see there's been no action taken on this account. I was easily able to just login and start posting, I only found out about the hack when I randomly logged in and noticed the bad reputation and hackers posts.
I do worry that the hack might have been something other than just gaining p/w access, perhaps the hackers exploit is/was able to bypass whatever I have set as the password. I would def prefer the nuke option if there's the option considering I would rather not be associated with being a hacker / scammer / bad reputation and risk more privacy being leaked to the hacker. There's also the possiblity other people might message me on this account, if there's 1% chance of it still being comprimised then the hacker might use trust to scam / hack them. I don't think there's any downside to just nuking, the hacker was spamming too.