I have done quite a few loans for my clients with the lender being Countrywide.  I got a call last night from my sister in law about an email she had received from Countrywide saying that her and her husbands identity might have been stolen in this ordeal.

This had been the first time I had heard about it and I was sick for them and every other person whose identity was stolen (which was around 2 million people).  I immediately jumped on the local news website to read about this disaster, you can read about it here.  I guess this post kind of goes hand in hand with my post yesterday about your credit scores.

If you have secured a loan over the last year or so through Countrywide, I would definitely hop on the internet today and check your credit score.  It is much easier to clean up your credit in the beginning phases of identity theft than a few years down the road.

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