A cyber criminal who went by the moniker Iceman has been indicted by a grand jury in Pittsburgh on wire fraud and transferring stolen information.
San Francisco-based Mark Ray Butler, 35, was a prolific identity thief and specialized in stolen credit card numbers, according to the authorities. Now he faces as long as 40 years in prison and fine of $1.5 million. It took a 16-month investigation by the US Secret Service to gather enough evidence against Butler.
Margaret Philbin, spokeswoman for US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan of Pittsburgh, told the Associated Press that the identity thief was transported to Pittsburgh to be tried as he had sold over 100 credit card numbers to a resident of Pennsylvania. The man cooperated with law enforcement on the case which is why Butler was indicted in a Pittsburgh court. Another witness said that Butler used to routinely hack into institutions like the Pentagon Federal Credit Union and Citibank.
Butler also used to use the aliases of Darkest, Digits and Aphex.
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