xxxxxIvy Alessandra Maria Buonocore is your typical eighteen year old, bratty rich mafia princess who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Like the rest of her siblings, Ivy attended private Catholic school. Family dinner was always on Sunday after Mass at 2:00 pm sharp and she had more cousins, aunts, and uncles than she could remember. In truth, she could remember them all and the bratty persona was just that. It was all an act. Ivy fell in love with computers and technology at a young age. She was learning how to code and program and by the time she was thirteen, she had built her own machine. Her parents indulged in her hobby but they never knew to the extent of her passion.
xxxxxBy fifteen, Ivy was hacking into school computers to help friends change their grades. Even when the school became aware that there was an infraction and increased their security measures, Ivy was already working on breaching the mainframe. Aside from her own school, she would tap into other schools in the neighborhood and soon enough she was in touch with some actual professional hackers in Manhattan who were none too pleased by her sloppy work. She was taken under the wing of a well known hacker and taught the basics of how to keep herself from being traced.
xxxxxAs most prodigies can be arrogant, Ivy was no exception. She made a terrible mistake one evening. Thinking she was hacking into the cellphone of a boy she liked (A Russian boy), she accidentally got into the boy's family's network and learned of their connections to their own organized crime ring. Needless to say, Ivy's father learned just how -talented- his daughter really was, but her mistake would cost them. He called his brother Paulie in Maine and told him that he'd be sending Ivy to attend college at St. John's. The rest as they say, is history.
xxxxxApparently.