I saw a discussion on this before. It's about the registration mails that Joomla! sends out when a user registers. In my case also with admin approval step.
I'm using the login-type: E-mail (set this in the Easy Profile Configuration).
But....
The first mail says
username: b115ad09bd5ede103f035a47fd8a36bf
The second and final mail after approval says:
username: Firstname
In both cases it doesn't show the e-mail as username.
But the e-mail does work if I use it to login.