Joe Tidy is the BBC’s first ever Cyber Correspondent and the foremost voice in the corporation on cybercrime and hacking. Over the past six years he has covered all major cyber-attacks for BBC TV, Radio, social media and its website. He has made documentaries about cyber security traveling to the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Germany and Ukraine to track down stories and characters. Joe’s most high-profile news feature and documentary saw him travel to Russia in November 2021 in search of the world’s most wanted cyber-criminal.
He is also the author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet. Tracking the rise and fall of some of the most infamous teenage hacker gangs, featuring exclusive interviews with the hackers themselves, alongside the police officers trying to stop them.
