Last night my landline rang from a number I did not recognise(from up the country 043) I answered but it had already been picked up by my answering machine so when I tried to pick up during the call neither people on the other end could hear me.
I was surprised to realise after a minute of trying to answer the caller on the other end that I recognised my neighbour's voice (2 houses up the road from me) who I have since confirmed was answering a call from his elderly father up the country, his fathers number including the county code came up on my phone and not my neighbours number, we are shocked at the level of instability and the total lack of security, could this indicate my landline number is being intercepted or hacked in some way, I need an explanation of this as I don’t feel I can speak now over my landline now as it does not seem like a secure means of communication.
After discussing this with my neighbour he confirmed that he was using "Messenger" and his father also was using "Messenger" both gentlemen were speaking to each other over their mobile phones, I do not have or have ever used "Messenger" and this came in through my Fibre broadband landline handset so I'm baffled.
Would anybody be able to shed some light on this for me, I also want people to be aware of the lack of security, it was fairly benign in this instance but imagine if you were discussing something personal/sensitive that you wouldn't like others to hear and then realising your calls could be heard clearly by others!
I have logged a fault/error with Eir, haven't called them yet as I need to brace myself for spending an hour on the phone trying to get through.
I was surprised to realise after a minute of trying to answer the caller on the other end that I recognised my neighbour's voice (2 houses up the road from me) who I have since confirmed was answering a call from his elderly father up the country, his fathers number including the county code came up on my phone and not my neighbours number, we are shocked at the level of instability and the total lack of security, could this indicate my landline number is being intercepted or hacked in some way, I need an explanation of this as I don’t feel I can speak now over my landline now as it does not seem like a secure means of communication.
After discussing this with my neighbour he confirmed that he was using "Messenger" and his father also was using "Messenger" both gentlemen were speaking to each other over their mobile phones, I do not have or have ever used "Messenger" and this came in through my Fibre broadband landline handset so I'm baffled.
Would anybody be able to shed some light on this for me, I also want people to be aware of the lack of security, it was fairly benign in this instance but imagine if you were discussing something personal/sensitive that you wouldn't like others to hear and then realising your calls could be heard clearly by others!
I have logged a fault/error with Eir, haven't called them yet as I need to brace myself for spending an hour on the phone trying to get through.