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# This Is a Data Breach
- URL: https://goodoil.news/this-is-a-data-breach/
- Published: 2025-11-30T19:30:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-30T19:30:21.000Z
- Description: The given names and surnames of 18 survivors are readily identifiable, apparent from the username field of the email addresses.
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: NZ Politics, Crime, History, Mental Health

[**Simon Anderson**](https://simontv.org/p/lake-alice-data-breach?ref=goodoil.news)  
*A dickhead with a camera. The Establishment’s dissident.*

[The Abuse in State Care](https://www.abuseinquiryresponse.govt.nz/?ref=goodoil.news) inquiry [announced on Thursday](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/abuse-in-care-lake-alice-survivors-allocated-between-160000-and-600000-in-redress-payments/SZWJ2WIUDRH6VIGSCEPKEGR3MY/?ref=goodoil.news) that compensation would be paid to 37 of the children who were tortured at the mental health facility. [Here is the report](https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/lake-alice-torture-redress-report-released?ref=goodoil.news). Independent Arbiter Paul Davidson KC noted:

![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U1i3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57a34720-79fb-4ce0-a6d5-434624ba1afe_699x137.png)

It is regrettable that the Crown Response Office’s attentiveness to the privacy of the survivors is less than the arbiter might have expected, with an email including their contact addresses circulated by a Wokington bureaucrat.

![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RXAo!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc698e0ad-fa0c-49ad-a4f1-ec79d176faef_1254x797.png)

The email was retracted less than an hour later, with an apology:

![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JtTR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e7bbe9e-9f0a-46e7-940a-1b29f7155c1f_1253x964.png)

The Crown Response Unit assured me that the[ Office of the Privacy Commissioner](https://www.privacy.org.nz/?ref=goodoil.news) has been informed. They also provided this statement attributed to the Chief Executive [Rajesh Chhana](https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/news/appointment-of-the-chief-executive-crown-response-office?ref=goodoil.news)

![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zXfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42d1114a-a5ff-42ae-b1ba-d9b53d57d72a_1250x281.png)

Chhana’s assertion that *“No personal information other than email addresses was released”* is misleading. The given names and surnames of 18 survivors are readily identifiable, apparent from the username field of the email addresses.

This article was originally published on the [author’s Substack](https://simontv.org/p/lake-alice-data-breach?ref=goodoil.news).