Thio was born in the outskirts of Nal Hutta. Like most of the greats, he was orphaned at birth. His parents gave him up for adoption because they couldn't afford to raise him. He never found out who his parents were, nor did he ever want to. He had a great childhood growing up in the orphanage, and by the age of 18 he had already established his own little gang of criminals, stealing from the rich to provide for themselves. Thio always had a natural affinity toward computers. He would spend most of his childhood writing codes, and finding random codes to slice. He even became good enough to slice into small, independent banks and rob them blind without stepping a foot in the door. He started to make a name for himself in the sliver community by slicing into a lot of controversial databases