Īfter moving to Half Moon Bay, California, he changed his last name to Vision and lived in a rented mansion "Hungry Manor" with a group of other computer enthusiasts. After an Internet service provider in Littleton, Colorado traced Butler's uploads of warez to an unprotected file transfer protocol server –the uploads were consuming excessive bandwidth–to the CompuServe corporate offices in Bellevue, Washington, CompuServe fired Butler. He discovered Internet Relay Chat and frequently downloaded warez, or illegally downloaded software or media. Professional and personal life īutler moved with his father near Seattle and worked in part-time technical support positions in various companies. The Idaho State Penitentiary paroled Butler on 26 April 1995. His appeal was unsuccessful on procedural grounds, as a judge ruled that Butler's defense attorney did not raise the issue in an earlier appeal. In 1991, Butler was convicted of assault during his freshman year of college. First offense īutler attended Boise State University for a year. He was sent to live with his father and he transferred to Bishop Kelly High School. Butler ultimately received probation for his crimes. After a parent reported a theft of chemicals from a lab room at Meridian High School, Butler pleaded guilty to malicious injury to property, first-degree burglary, and grand theft. As a teenager, Max Butler became interested in bulletin board systems and hacking. His father was a Vietnam War veteran and computer store owner who married a daughter of Ukrainian immigrants. Early life īutler was born on July 10, 1972, and grew up in Meridian, Idaho with a younger sibling his parents divorced when he was 14. He was convicted of two counts of wire fraud, including stealing nearly 2 million credit card numbers and running up about $86 million in fraudulent charges. Max Ray Vision (formerly Max Ray Butler, alias Iceman) is a former computer security consultant and hacker who served a 13-year prison sentence, the longest sentence ever given at the time for hacking charges in the United States.
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