Countrywide customers receive warning letters

Some Fallbrook residents who have home mortgages through Countrywide Financial Corporation, a California-based company, are receiving letters notifying them that their personal information may have been sold to a third party.

Even if a letter has not been received, sources say Countrywide loan customers should call their lenders to see if they are at risk.

In its letter to affected customers, Countrywide says the fraudulent crime was an “inside job.”

It reads: “We are writing to inform yemployee (now former) may have sold personal information about you to a third party.

“Based on a joint inves...