A drunk caller pretending to be Britain's top spy chief successfully breached procedures to speak to Prime Minister David Cameron, prompting authorities to review security measures to weed out such calls in future. The Prime Minister ended the call when it became clear that it was a hoax and no sensitive information was disclosed, the Downing Street said.
Cameron said he was out walking with his family this morning when his mobile phone rang with what appeared to be a conference call with Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) director Robert Hannigan. He said he did not recognise the voice of the man, who apologised for waking him up — although it was around 11 am already.
On being asked who he was, the man said it was a hoax call following which Cameron promptly hung up, the PM said. "No harm was done, no national security was breached. "But it is important when these things happen, to make sure we do everything we can to put in place systems to weed out hoax calls," Cameron said. However, the giggling prankster - who claimed to be Hannigan - telephoned The Sun tabloid and said he will "definitely do it again" as it was "so easy" to make the hoax call.