Credit Card Hacker Pleads Guilty In Credit Card Theft Case.

In the United States ended a lawsuit over a hacker named Max Ray Butler, also known as Max Ray Vision and Iceman. Butler was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for breaking into computer networks and stealing credit card numbers. It is the longest period of time designated in the U.S. court for hacking, and it can really kill that Albert Gonzales, is awaiting sentencing on charges of embezzling about 170 million cards.

Butler did not just sit down, he will also have to pay the bankers and financiers compensation in the amount of 27,5 million dollars. On his home computer has 1.8 million credit card numbers, and the investigators were confident that the 1.1 million numbers he has received directly.

On average, replacing a stolen card costs about $ 25. Accordingly, the court and appointed a compensation by multiplying 1.1 million by 25. Representatives of the payment systems tracked by numbers of cards Vision transactions on 86 million dollars. Results of hackers hit 10 thousand financial organizations and institutions.

Hacker was taken into custody in September 2007, and until relatively recently, he faces up to 60 years imprisonment. He seriously knock off his term in June 2009 pleaded guilty to all counts. The defense also denied that Max Vision needed the money. According to counsel, the hacker was rescued from their activities less than a million dollars.

From bell to bell
Unlike many other hackers Max perfectly familiar with American prison. His first five years he received in 1991, when threatened to kill him to break up a girl. In 1995, he went out, changed his name to Butler on Vision and moved to San Francisco to start a new life.

Vision to make a living auditing IT-security. For $ 100 an hour he tried to hack websites and computer systems of customers, and then telling them what vulnerabilities and holes in the protection found.

The same time he was involved in that, without demand, climbed into the wrong network. In spring 1998, they came for him. These days Vision corrected at a variety of servers, error in the program BIND, which allows to take control of your computer. Of course, in exchange, he left a small hole for himself.

All this was done in an automatic or semiautomatic mode – introduced them to the program itself reported a successful installation. Hackers, perhaps, felt uneasy when such messages are coming from military bases from the nuclear laboratories, Ministries of Interior, Commerce and Transport.

In May 2001 he was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in a federal prison Taft. In 2002, out of prison he was sent to a rehabilitation center, and from there he began to look for work, offering their services not for the 100, but only for 6,75 per hour.

Money not enough.

Prince of  Card world
Shortly Vision met with friends at the prison and took commonplace – unauthorized intrusion into computer networks. All this happened during the years of surveillance Max established law enforcers after his release from prison.

Writes Wired, the hacker was a humanist and therefore preferred to obtain credit card numbers. Responsibility for credit-card fraud is the bank. Thus, none of the ordinary citizen was injured.

Hacker began to communicate in karderskih forums and nearly became a victim of stripping a large community Shadowcrew law enforcement agencies. That raid was the largest at that time anti-hacking operation in the United States.

As a result, Max Vision has decided to have its own platform for the collection and distribution of information on credit cards and similar data. Site CardersMarket out not only local but also in Russia and Ukrainian markets. To do this, the hacker, operating under the nickname Iceman, took to the translators who came from Mongolia Tsengeltsetsega Tsetsendelgera.

There remained only four major competitors’ sites. For two days Max Ray Vision hacked them, stole all the important information and wiped the database. So he got an audience of six thousand people and a lot of data on the credit card.

In late 2006, Iceman suddenly resigned, stepped up security measures began to move from house to house. FBI by the time sought by might and main founder CardersMarket, and one of the familiar hacker laid informant, U.S. Secret Service. A friend told me all he knew. Split and a former co-defendant Vision. The other co-defendant were detained. Questioned even Tsetsendelgera. September 5, 2007 Butler was arrested.

What will Max Vision, which will be released for the third time, is unknown. But guess easy.