Max Butler Research Paper

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World’s Most Famous Hacker Max Butler Behind Bars
One of the world’s most skillful computer hackers, Max Butler who’s dream has always been to unite hackers all over the world has pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges, admitting he hacked into and stole approximately 2 million credit card numbers from businesses, banks and even other hackers creating 86 million dollars in fraudulent charges from his safe house at San Francisco.
Aged 36, Max Ray Butler, also known as Max Ray Vision, has been faced with up to 60 years in prison for two felonies under law. The clean cut, six-foot plus hacker wearing an orange uniform and round glasses towered over the deputy marshals that bought him into the court room. After seated, he spoke softly and calmly as he answered questions from the judge. …show more content…

While behind bars, the hacker met more serious and dangerous criminals, one of which introduced him to a former bank robber and his future partner, Chris Aragon.
Butler admitted in court that he had begun hacking banks and other hackers to take credit card numbers which he could sell to his partner and other members of the credit card fraud industry. Butler’s partner had been the one turning the credit card numbers into almost perfect replicas and then buying from stores and reselling on eBay.
Butlers claim to fame in the hacking world was when while using the name “Iceman”, he hacked into every well-known site specializing in credit card fraud, stolen data and fake IDs and stole all of their used databases. He then destroyed the sites original databases crippling the law-enforcement-riddled credit card fraud industry and unifying it into one, clean site for all credit card hackers to