Ouch. We got a caller to our business desk late yesterday, warning us that he received a letter from his lender, Countrywide Financial, which said a former CW employee sold "unauthorized personal information about you to a third party."
I got home and found the same letter in the mail. At the office this morning a colleague said she got one too. What's the deal?
"Investigators say Rebollo admitted to giving out customers' account information to third parties over two years. He estimated that he profited by as much as $70,000 on the sales, the FBI said. He has pleaded not guilty; the charge carries up to five years in federal prison."
I went online and found the news rippling in all directions about it. Here are some of the reports in Consumer Affairs.com, in Trading Markets.com and The Los Angeles Times version in Newsday. Also The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and The Salt Lake Tribune.
My favorite line in the letter I and others received: "We take our responsibility to safeguard your information very seriously....."
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