Joe Tidy
BBC News cyber correspondent and author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos
Joe Tidy is a journalist who is the Cyber Correspondent at BBC News and the author of the book Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet (2025). His publisher describes him as the BBC's first ever cyber correspondent. He reports on cybercrime, hacking, privacy, online safety, cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence for BBC television, radio and online.
Joe Tidy’s social media accounts
Social
X (Twitter): @joetidy
TikTok: @joetidy
Threads: @mrjoetidy
Bluesky: @joetidy.bsky.social
LinkedIn: @joe-tidy-1932764
Instagram: @mrjoetidy
Web
Career
Tidy began his career at the BBC, working for BBC Oxford and BBC South Today and as a presenter and reporter on the children's news programme Newsround. In 2013 he joined Sky News as a correspondent covering home news, with a particular interest in technology and social affairs. According to his publisher, his interest in cybercrime began while reporting on the Lizard Squad attack at Christmas 2014.
He was appointed the BBC's cyber security correspondent in 2018. His reporting has included a trip to Russia in November 2021 in search of a wanted cyber-criminal, and the BBC describes him as one of the few Western journalists to have met an alleged member of the Evil Corp hacking group.
Work
Ctrl+Alt+Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet was published in hardback and as an ebook by Elliott & Thompson on 5 June 2025; Tidy narrates the audiobook. A Finnish translation, Ctrl+Alt+Kaaos, has also been published.
He co-hosts the BBC World Service podcast Cyber Hack, whose series Evil Corp he presents with Sarah Rainsford. He also works as a keynote speaker and event moderator.
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