http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080913-9999-1b13breach.html



By Mike Freeman

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

September 13, 2008 



Mortgage lender Countrywide has contacted some San Diego County 

customers to tell them their personal information, including Social 

Security numbers, was stolen as part of a massive security breach 

uncovered about two months ago.



Countrywide, which was recently bought by Bank of America, is offering 

to pay for two years of credit-report monitoring for customers who were 

victims of the breach, according to a letter sent to victims. Some 

letters arrived this week.



On Aug. 2, Countrywide and the FBI in Los Angeles announced that a 

former company employee had been arrested on suspicion of stealing reams 

of personal information of thousands of the company's customers over a 

two-year period.



He sold the Social Security numbers and other data to third parties, 

according to authorities. The investigation is continuing.



Two men, former employee Rene Rebollo Jr. of Pasadena and Wahid Siddiqi 

of Thousand Oaks, have been charged with felonies in the case. Both men 

pleaded not guilty last month. Siddiqi allegedly resold the data.



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