Threat Management, Vulnerability Management

A dish served cold: Chef Gordon Ramsay’s in-laws charged with computer hacking

You call that a bloody computer hack?! @#$% pathetic!

London's Metropolitan Police has charged four in-laws of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, including the famous curmudgeon's father-in-law, with computer hacking.

The charges were filed as a result of Operation Tuleta, a computer hacking investigation that followed the News International phone spying scandal. According to a statement issued yesterday by the Met Police, Ramsay's father-in-law Chris Hutcheson, 68, of Druillat, France, was charged alongside his sons Adam Hutchson, 46, and Chris Hutchseon, 37, and his daughter Orlanda Butland, 45. All three adult children live in the UK.

The four suspects will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, March 14.

"The charges follow allegations that between 23 October 2010 and 3 March 2011, they conspired together to cause a computer to access programs and data held in any computer without authority, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977," reads the police statement.

The Guardian yesterday reported that shortly after the elder Hutcheson was fired as chief executive of Gordon Ramsay Holdings in 2010, Ramsay engaged in a bitter legal battle with his father-in-law, accusing him of hacking his computers and reading his personal emails.

Bradley Barth

As director of multimedia content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance, Bradley Barth develops content for online conferences, webcasts, podcasts video/multimedia projects — often serving as moderator or host. For nearly six years, he wrote and reported for SC Media as deputy editor and, before that, senior reporter. He was previously a program executive with the tech-focused PR firm Voxus. Past journalistic experience includes stints as business editor at Executive Technology, a staff writer at New York Sportscene and a freelance journalist covering travel and entertainment. In his spare time, Bradley also writes screenplays.

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