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26/01/2015
Security Review To Be Carried Out After PM Hoax Call
Downing Street has announced a security review is to be carried out after a hoax caller, claiming to be the head of GCHQ, was put through to the Prime Minister's mobile phone.
According to reports, a man claiming to be Robert Hannigan, director of the government monitoring agency, was put through from No. 10's switch board to the PM's Blackberry mobile phone.
Mr Cameron is understood to have terminated the call as soon as he realised it was not genuine.
Asked about the call during an event in Hampshire, Mr Cameron said that "these things happen" and "no harm had been done".
Downing Street and GCHQ have both announced that they will carry out a security review following the incident.
(MH/JP)
According to reports, a man claiming to be Robert Hannigan, director of the government monitoring agency, was put through from No. 10's switch board to the PM's Blackberry mobile phone.
Mr Cameron is understood to have terminated the call as soon as he realised it was not genuine.
Asked about the call during an event in Hampshire, Mr Cameron said that "these things happen" and "no harm had been done".
Downing Street and GCHQ have both announced that they will carry out a security review following the incident.
(MH/JP)
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