Countrywide Mortgage has started notifying customers that <A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1874&tag=nl.e539">a rogue employee (since dismissed) may have sold sensitive personal information</A> to an unidentified third party.

The company mailed "urgent security notification" letters to customers this week, warning that the customer information involved included names, addresses, social security numbers, mortgage loan numbers and "various other loan and application information."