David Cameron has said "no national security was breached" when he received a hoax call from a prankster.
Security procedures are under review after the call to Downing Street was put through to the Prime Minister and an earlier call where the mobile phone number of the boss of GCHQ was was given out.
Mr Cameron ended the call when it became clear it was a prank, and Downing Street said no sensitive information was disclosed.
Speaking in Southampton, the Prime Minister told how he took the call while out for a family walk in his Witney, Oxfordshire, constituency.
"I had Florence on my back to add to the exercise regime that I'm undertaking, my Blackberry went in my pocket, I answered it and it claimed to be a conference call established, which I do obviously very frequently, between the head of GCHQ and some of the staff in my office.
"A voice came through, a voice I didn't recognise, the voice said that he was sorry to wake me up - which I thought was strange as it was 11 o'clock in the morning and so I quite rapidly asked 'who is this?' to which the answer came 'it is a hoax call,' and so I pushed the red button on my Blackberry, which ended the call.
"So 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.
"But every now and again, I suspect these things will happen."
Investigations into the breach are under way at both Number 10 and GCHQ, where a mobile phone number for director Robert Hannigan was revealed to the caller.
A Government spokesman said: "Following two hoax calls to Government departments today, a notice has gone out to all departments to be on the alert for such calls.
"In the first instance, a call was made to GCHQ which resulted in the disclosure of a mobile phone number for the director.
"The mobile phone number provided is never used for calls involving classified information.
"In the second instance, a hoax caller claiming to be the GCHQ director was connected to the Prime Minister.
"Both GCHQ and Number 10 take security seriously and both are currently reviewing procedures following these hoax calls to ensure that the Government learns any lessons from this incident."
It is not known if the same person was behind both hoaxes, but a man claiming responsibility for the call to GCHQ described his actions to The Sun newspaper.
He claimed he was high on drink and drugs at the time and said the situation was "hilarious".
"I've just made complete monkeys out of GCHQ. I've got the mobile number of the director," he told the paper.
"What's more, I am off my face on booze and cocaine."
He added: "I'm definitely going to do it again. It was so easy."
The paper reported that the man telephoned Mr Hannigan claiming to be an ITN journalist, but said the director was suspicious and ended the call.
The mobile phone number for Mr Hannigan is understood to be for an unclassified phone, rather than one of the secure lines used for sensitive communications.
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