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A federal grand jury, in March 2000, indicted [Max Ray Butler], accusing him of having invaded computers at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in Illinois and New York, respectively; at IDSoftware, a Mesquite, Texas company; at the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations Marshall Flight Center in Alabama; and the federal Secretary of Transportations office in Washington, D.C. Butler was also accused of intercepting user names and passwords from those computers, and having about 477 passwords belonging to customers of Aimnet, a Santa Clara Internet service provider. Butler by then was well-known in the computer security community; the founder of Berkeley-based Max Vision Network Security, he also had created http://www.whitehats.com, a site offering security resources including a database of electronic signatures left by hackers. In hacker lingo, a white-hat is a law-abiding person while a black hat is someone who invades computers without permission.

The indictment claims [Max Ray Butler], sometimes known by the online alias \"Iceman,\" co-founded and administered \"CardersMarket,\" a Web site created as a safe haven for those engaged in stealing, using and selling credit card numbers. A federal grand jury, in March 2000, indicted Butler, accusing him of having invaded computers at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in Illinois and New York, respectively; at IDSoftware, a Mesquite, Texas company; at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Flight Center in Alabama; and the federal Secretary of Transportation's office in Washington, D.C. Butler was also accused of intercepting user names and passwords from those computers, and having about 477 passwords belonging to customers of Aimnet, a Santa Clara Internet service provider. .com, a site offering security resources including a database of electronic signatures left by hackers. In hacker lingo, a \"white-hat\" is a law-abiding person while a \"black hat\" is someone who invades computers without permission.

The indictment claims [Max Ray Butler], sometimes known by the online alias \"Iceman,\" co-founded and administered \"CardersMarket,\" a Web site created as a safe haven for those engaged in stealing, using and selling credit card numbers. Butler by then was well-known in the computer security community; the founder of Berkeley-based Max Vision Network Security, he also had created http://www.whitehats.com, a site offering security resources including a database of electronic signatures left by hackers. In hacker lingo, a \"white-hat\" is a law-abiding person while a \"black hat\" is someone who invades computers without permission.

The indictment claims [Max Ray Butler], sometimes known by the online alias \"Iceman,\" co-founded and administered \"CardersMarket,\" a Web site created as a safe haven for those engaged in stealing, using and selling credit-card numbers. Thousands of members worldwide used the site to communicate and to coordinate their schemes, the indictment says. Butler by then was well-known in the computer security community; the founder of Berkeley-based Max Vision Network Security, he also had created www.whitehats.com, a site offering security resources including a database of electronic signatures left by hackers. In hacker lingo, a \"white-hat\" is a law-abiding person while a \"black hat\" is someone who invades computers without permission.

\"[Max Ray Butler] operates a well-known exchange of stolen identity information within the United States and abroad,\" U.S. Secret Service agent John Sechler said in an affidavit. Authorities investigated Butler for 16 months. His partner Christopher Aragon told agents Butler supplied him with more than 1,000 stolen credit card numbers monthly for nearly two years. Aragon programmed counterfeit charge cards with the numbers, bought merchandise, sold items online and split the proceeds with Butler, he told agents. \"In general, the vast majority of attacks like this happen because people in charge of protecting the information haven't done their due diligence,\" [Marty Lindner] said. \"It only takes an advocate who is mildly motivated (to steal.) It doesn't take a rocket scientist.\"

Authorities said [Max Ray Butler] also operated a Web site that served as an online forum for people who steal, share or use others' credit card information illegally in a practice is known as \"carding.\" The number of cards allegedly stolen was not clear, but one pe rson told investigators he received \"tens of thousands of cards\" from Butler, according to an affidavit. In the affidavit, federal agents said Butler used the aliases \"Iceman,\" \"Aphex,\" \"Darkest\" and \"Digits\" on his Internet forum, in e-mails with other carders or when hacking into the computers of financial institutions.

In a plea agreement announced Monday, Max Ray Butler, 27, also known as Max Vision, admitted to one felony charge of unauthorized access to protected computers, recklessly causing damage. Butler, who is free on bail, is to be sentenced Jan. 22 and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. San FranciscoStill using a wheelchair and crutches after falling down a flight of stairs, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was scheduled for surgery Tuesday to repair injuries suffered in the fall. The surgery, which will not require an overnight hospital stay, will be performed at a San Francisco hospital by Dr. Kevin Stone, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports injuries to the knee and shoulders. He is a physician for the U.S. Ski Team, the Marin Ballet, the Lawrence Pech Dance Company and the Old Blues Rugby Club.

Max Vision was surprised when Chris and Mike, his two contacts from the FBI office in San Francisco, turned up at his front door in Santa Clara, CA, in October 1998. He didn't recognize the man with them, although later he learned it was the FBI's computer-crime boss. But then this was not a social call. They're building a case on you, Max, they said. You've really screwed up on this one. In a state of mild shock, Vision turned over his computer and everything else -- he did not want to appear to be obstructing justice, though he was not yet sure what the problem was. In order to protect yourself from criminal or \"blackhat\" hackers, it was sometimes necessary as a \"whitehat\" hacker to ascertain how to break into systems -- an act that might in itself have been illegal.

  Using the names \"Iceman,\" \"Aphex,\" \"Digits\" and \"Darkest,\" [Max Ray Butler] used a high-powered antenna to intercept wireless communications to hack into financial institutions, the indictment says. The indictment also claims a business associate of Butler's, Christopher Aragon, used some of the stolen credit card numbers to make transactions and shared proceeds with Butler. Aragon, who was arrested in May, told Secret Service agents that Butler provided him \"tens of thousands\" of stolen credit card numbers.