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2011 — Countrywide Financial Corp: Employee convicted of downloading millions of…

2011 2.5M records affected

Technical writeup

Employee convicted of downloading millions of borrower files and selling the information to other loan officers.

Root cause

Inside job

References

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/09/man-convicted-in-huge-countrywide-data-theft-gets-8-months-in-prison.html