Nicole Perlroth

Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, and elections, North Korea's cyberattacks against movie studios, banks, and hospitals, Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks, and the Trump campaign, and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks, including a months-long hack of The Times. Her first book, This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends, about the global cyber arms race, will publish in February 2021. The book, and several of her Times articles, have been optioned for television. She is a graduate of Princeton University (BA) and Stanford (MA).