An unemployed Austrailan truck driver appears to have had more than just time on his hands. David Cecil who allegedly gave himself the online nickname “Evil”, was refused bail when he appeared in court on charges of hacking into internet company Platform Networks, one of 13 service companies to offer services under the National Broadband Network (NBN).

It was alleged the 25-year-old Cecil is a self-taught hacker who acted alone, spending up to 20 hours a day on his home computer. Allegedly, Cecil had control of the entire system of Platform Networks for six weeks. David Cecil has been charged with one count of unauthorised modification of data to cause impairment, and 48 counts of unauthorised access to, or modification of, restricted data.

It's also alleged he was responsible for an intrusion into Sydney University's computer system, and had attempted to hack into other unnamed major companies.

DistributeIT claims David Cecil is also responsible for the attack that compromised their company's shared servers. The Evil call-sign was left during the DistributeIT attack which affected thousands of businesses and resulted in the permanent loss of some 4000 websites.

The Netregistry Group which took control of DistributeIT calls on “Evil” to apologise to all the businesses he ruined as a result of the targeted hacking attack.

Anybody else? The offences carry a jail terms of up to 10 years.