Max Butler

Max Ray Vision (formerly Max Ray Butler, alias Iceman,was born on July 10, 1972.) Max Butler is a former computer security consultant and hacker who is currently serving a 13 year prison sentence, the second longest sentence ever given for hacking charges in the United States of America. 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.

Early life

Butler grew up in Meridian, Idaho and had a younger sibling; his parents divorced when he was 14. His father was a Vietnam War veteran and computer store owner who married a daughter of Ukrainian immigrants. As a teenager, Max Butler became interested in bulletin board systems and hacking. After a parent reported a theft of chemicals from a lab room, Meridian High School expelled Butler, and Butler pled guilty to malicious injury to property, first-degree burglary, and grand theft. Butler was diagnosed as bipolar in a two-week psychiatric evaluation at an in-care facility and ultimately received probation for his crimes, to live with his father, and transfer to Bishop Kelly High School.