Authorities take the alleged offender into police custody. Picture: Australian Federal Police Source: NewsCore
- Court denies NBN hacker David Cecil bail
- Fears Cecil could destroy evidence on bail
- Allegedly controlled system for six weeks
- Police say Cecil was a "self taught hacker"
AN unemployed truck driver accused of hacking into a service provider for the national broadband network (NBN) has been refused bail.
David Cecil, who allegedly gave himself the online nickname Evil, has been charged with what is possibly Australia's biggest hacking attack.
In Orange Local Court today, it was alleged the 25-year-old Cowra man had control of the entire system of one of the 12 NBN service providers for six weeks.
Cecil has been charged with one count of an unauthorised change of data and 49 counts of accessing restricted data over his alleged incursions into Platform Networks.
It is alleged he is a self-taught hacker who acted alone, spending up to 20 hours a day on his home computer.
Court registrar Ailsa Ryder agreed Cecil could possibly destroy evidence if granted bail, and remanded him in custody to appear in the same court on Friday.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers arrested Cecil at his Cowra home yesterday, after a seven-month investigation into computer crime inside a Sydney University and several Melbourne businesses.
"We identified a number of companies that were hacked ...," AFP commander Grant Edwards said in Canberra earlier today.
Police say the alleged attack did not have the potential to cause serious disruption to the $36 billion NBN.
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