Keeping Your Account Protected

I got that e-mail today. Maybe I'm old. Maybe I'm grumpy. Maybe I'm not hip, but conversational language for a matter this serious comes across as flippant and doesn't help me feel better.

When I then read that they were "protecting" passwords with MD5 and no mention of even a salt my blood tends to boil even more. This is a serious situation and the fact that they were apparently only using MD5 as recently as 2014 makes me wonder how serious they've been at protecting any data.