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Evil the Hacker responsible for Destroying Distribute IT has been caught

Monday, August 1st, 2011

‘Evil’ the hacker refused bail over NBN plot

AN UNEMPLOYED truck driver with the online moniker ”Evil” hacked into one of the national broadband network’s service providers and had control of its entire system for at least six weeks, police allege.
In the first solo hacking case of its kind in Australia, federal police yesterday arrested  25-year-old [...]

DistributeIT outages was it Evil the Hacker? 14/06/2011 – Industry News

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Over the past 3 weeks DistributeIT’s hosting services have been constantly interrupted.
On the 25th May DistributeIT stated:
“There was a problematic account on the Hurricane server which was doing a full backup as well as doing malicious script and bringing down the server to a halt. We have since suspended the account and warned the owner of doing [...]