"A San Francisco man pleaded guilty today in Pittsburgh this
afternoon to federal charges of hacking into computer systems of
financial institutions and other hackers to steal nearly 2 million
credit card numbers, which were used to rack up more than $86 million
in fraudulent charges.
Max Ray Vision, formerly Max Ray Butler, pleaded guilty to two
counts of wire fraud. Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill
scheduled sentencing for Oct. 20. Vision faces up to 60 years in prison
and substantial restitution.
Prosecutors in Pittsburgh charged Vision in 2007 after he sold
credit card numbers and related information to a Secret Service
informant living in Western Pennsylvania. Another informant, also from
Western Pennsylvania, infiltrated Vision's criminal network, said
Assistant U.S. Attorney Luke Dembosky.
Vision, who used the Internet alias "Iceman," and a partner in Los
Angeles, Christopher Aragon, established CardersMarket.com as a way to
acquire, sell and use stolen credit card and other identity-related
information, a practice known as "carding," Dembosky said. The Web site
at its peak had approximately 4,500 members worldwide."
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