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Names and phone numbers of millions of Verizon customers were made available on a publicly accessible storage area owned by one of the company's vendors, according an enterprise security software company that discovered the exposed data.

"Anyone entering a URL in a browser would have been able to access it," said Dan O'Sullivan, cyber-resilience analyst with UpGuard, the Mountain View, Calif., company that found the data.

As many as 14 million U.S.-based Verizon customers have had their data exposed by a partner of the telecommunications giant, which misconfigured a repository storing the personal information it had access to.

A California congressman has written a letter to the Alabama State Bar (ASB) accusing Attorney General Jeff Sessions of possibly violating Alabama's Rule of Professional Conduct for lawyers.

More than a dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives are questioning why the Justice Department settled a recent money laundering case involving the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Two Democratic Reps. have introduced amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act hammering the President's perceived dovishness on Russia.

Rep. Don Beyer (D-Virg) introduced an amendment blocking funding to any new joint cybersecurity effort with Russia, such as the one the President is said to have agreed to with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Officials from both the United States and Russia in the room when President Trump and Putin met Friday both said the leaders agreed to some form of bilateral cybersecurity unit.

Several amendments to the House's annual defense policy bill aim to curb President Trump and his family members from potentially using their new political clout for business profits.

An amendment to the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) would require that no Defense Department funds "be used to conduct business, including the purchase of hotel rooms or conference space, with any entity owned by or significantly controlled by the President or a member of the President's immediate family."

THE TOPLINE: After a grueling nine-month campaign, the U.S.-led coalition and Iraq's prime minister declared victory Monday over the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Mosul.

"I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul," Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a speech on state television, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.