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Sounds like as far as security incidents go, this is as good as they can be. Sounds like someone got in and could maybe see some email addresses and not much else.
No security guy, but if the passwords were just hashed and not salted it's not ideal. Better than plaintext for sure though.
EDIT: Plex employee confirmed they do salt (and pepper, which I'm less familiar with), the last time they were hacked and had passwords exposed, fwiw.
They absolutely would have been salted, as that is best practice. Just not something the average Plex user understands most likely.