Max Butler: Wiki, Bio, Age, Prison, Hacking, Iceman, Offences

Max Butler: Wiki, Bio, Age, Prison, Hacking, Iceman, Offences, Birthday, Birthplace, Education, Parents, Wife, Children: Max Bulter is a famous mastermind Hacker who hacked American Federal Government websites and had an audacious plan to rule the black market using the stolen credit cards. He has suffered 13 years in prison for his offenses, which is the longest time someone has been jailed for hacking. Keep Reading to know more about his life and other personal details.

Max Butler

Max Butler Birthday, Age, Zodiac, Name

Max Butler was born on the 10th of July in the year 1972. He is currently 50 years old and has been jailed for a really long time. Born on 10th July, Max’s Zodiac Sign or Sun Sign is Cancer. Max Butler later changed his name to Max Vision.

Max Butler Parents, Siblings, Birthplace

Butler was born and brought up for the most part in Meridian, Idaho. He had a rough Childhood, as his parents divorced when he was just reaching adolescence, at the age of 14. Though the name of his parents is not known, their backgrounds are known. His father was a veteran of the Vietnam War and he also owned a computer store. His mother was the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants. After their divorce, he moved in with his father in Seattle. Since Max’s father owned a computer store, Max might have had good access to computers, and as such he developed an interest in Hacking and was also interested in Bulletin Board Systems when he was a teenager. He also had a sibling but his name is not known.

Max Butler Education, School

Max Butler was initially studying at Meridian High School, however, he was transferred to another school pertaining of some serious offenses he did in this school. He went to Bishop Kelly High School. He then started his higher studies at Boise State University but had to drop out after a year for critical charges against him right in his freshman year.

Max Butler Career

He started his career, as a part-time technical support in various companies. Max discovered the Internet Relay Chat and he also regularly downloaded Malware Warez from the Internet. He was working in CompuServe, a company based in Bellevue, Washington.   An Internet service provider in Littleton, Colorado traced Butler’s uploads of warez to an unprotected file transfer protocol server. He also discovered that the uploads were consuming excessive bandwidth to the CompuServe corporate offices. Soon after, CompuServe fired him.

After that, he changed his last name to Vision and moved to California where he started living in a rented mansion along with other computer enthusiasts. Because of his skills, he became a system administrator at computer gaming start-up MPath Interactive but had to leave it when he was involved in charges against him by the software Publisher’s association.

After his marriage, he started working as a freelance pentester and security consultant. During this time developed an online resource of arachNIDS.He has been involved in several white hat hacking and technical consultant jobs all his life but he tried to hack at every chance he got.

Max Butler Offences

From his childhood, he appeared to be quite disturbed and Criminal Minded. Initially, he started with little offices but over time he developed himself. He had a knack for stealing. While he was in Meridian High, he was charged with stealing chemicals from the  Chemistry lab, which he achieved through Burglary of the first degree. He was sent to probation, but since he was a minor he was not jailed. During his first year at college, he was charged with Assault. However, he lost the case and was convicted, though he was released prior to his term on the condition of good behavior.

His hunger for stealing more items and especially data made him face many more problems. He was caught uploading malware software on the company’s office portals and was fired from CompuServe. Soon after, the Software Publishers Association filed a $300,000 lawsuit against Butler for engaging in the unauthorized distribution of software from CompuServe’s office which was later settled the case for $3,500 and free computer consulting.

Max Butler FBI Investigation, Charges, Sentence

While trying to fix a security hole in the BIND server daemon, Max Butler installed a backdoor onto American federal government websites. However, his little game was not hidden for long as an investigator with the United States Air Force found Butler via pop-up notifications. Even though he hired attorney Jennifer Granick but even he couldn’t save him. Inevitably,  served an 18-month federal prison sentence handed down by US District Judge.

Max was released in 2003 and was under supervision when he used the Wi-Fi technology to commit cyberattacks anonymously along with another COmputer enthusiast, Chris Aragon. He was very good at what he did. Soon he started programming malware, such as allowing the Bifrost trojan horse to evade virus scanner programs and exploiting the HTML Application feature of Internet Explorer. He did this to steal credit card information.

He had a master plan to dominate the black money market with his hacking skills. Max used to steal numerous American Express Credit Card numbers and use his hacking skills to target Citibank by using a Trojan horse which is malware. He would then distribute PINs to his partner Aragon. Aragon had a group of people working for him who would then withdraw small amounts of money every now and then from each of the hacked accounts until the accounts became empty. Together, almost 2 million credit cards were stolen by them and $86 million of the profit was then used for other fraudulent purposes.

In 2007 he was arrested being accused of operating CardersMarket, a forum where other cybercriminals bought and sold sensitive data such as credit card numbers. Also as his master plan came to light, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Max Butler Release, Restitution, Alias

After 13 years of jail, he was released and under supervision for 5 years. Butler was released from FCI Victorville Medium 2, in 2021. He had to pay  $27.5 million for his theft, and as compensation to the victims. He used his Alias “Iceman” while running the CardersMarket.

Max Butler Wife, Children

Max Butler and Kimi Winters married in 2005 and have been married since. According to one source from the internet, Kimi Winters supported her husband during his charges and asked people who worked with him to issue pepper character certificates for him. She says that his contribution to Computer Security has remained unthanked and that in order for him to have justice, people who have worked with him should come forward. Max Butler appears to have no children of his own.

Here is a full bio of his age, sex, name, new name, wife, children, marital status, relationship status, girlfriend, educational status, school, college, university, parents, mother, father, siblings, brother, sister, career, offenses, birthday, birthplace, height, weight, body measurements, hair color, eye color, sexuality, nationality, and more.

Max Butler Information Table

Name Max Butler (Vision)
Nickname Iceman
Gender Male
Profession Technical Consultant, Ethical Hacking
Height (approx.) N/A
Weight (approx.) N/A
Figure Measurements Not Available
Eye Colour Hazel
Hair Colour Dark Brown
Date of Birth 10th July 1972
Age (as of 2022) 50 years
Birth Place Meridian, Idaho
Zodiac sign/Sun sign Cancer
Nationality American
Hometown Idaho
School Meridian High School

Bishop Kelly High School

College/University Boise State University
Educational Qualification College drop-out
Religion Christianity
Ethnicity Mixed
Caste Not Available
Address Not Available
Hobbies/Interests N/A
Marital Status Married
Affairs/Boyfriends/Girlfriends Not Available
Sexuality Straight
Parents N/A
Siblings  1 sibling 
Husband/Wife/Spouse Kimi Winters
Children N/A
Net Worth $4 million

Social Media Accounts of the Hacker

You can watch his documentary here.

Lesser known facts about Butler

  • He later changed his name to Max Vision.
  • His life and Crime plan were made into a short documentary, shown in one episode of the CNBC TV Programme called “American Greed”.
  • He used an alias Iceman.
  • His wife, Kimi Winters supported him in his life.
  • He developed ‘an online community resource called the “advanced reference archive of current heuristics for network intrusion detection systems,” or arachNIDS.’

FAQs on the Cybercriminal

1) How long did he stay in prison?

He remained in prison for 13 years, which is the longest time one has served for Hacking related crimes.

2)How old is he?

He is currently 50 years old.

3)Does he have any children?

No, he doesn’t have any children.

4)How much money did he make using his Masterplan?

He made almost 86 million dollars using his Hacking skills and his plan.

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