The former Michigan football coach accused of hacizing the personal information of thousands of athletes and theft of “intimate” photos and videos pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
On Thursday, Matt Weiss, 42, was struck by a federal indictment of 24 counts, the prosecutors announced; He was dismissed from his coach post under the former head coach Jim Harbaugh Following an investigation into alleged crimes.
According to the indictment, from 2015 to 2023, Weiss “acquired unauthorized access to the databases of athlete students of more than 100 colleges and universities which were maintained by a third -party supplier”.
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Matt Weiss, 42, was struck by a federal indictment of 24 counts on Thursday, said prosecutors. (Mark J. Rebilas / USA TODAY SPORTS)
He would then have downloaded personal information and data of more than 150,000 athletes, and from there, Weiss was able to access information of more than 2,000 athletes, including access to their social networks, their emails and their cloud storage.
Weiss is accused of using this information to download “intimate personal photographs and digital videos that have never been intended to be shared beyond intimate partners,” said prosecutors.
He would then have downloaded personal information and data of more than 150,000 athletes, and from there, Weiss was able to access information of more than 2,000 athletes, including access to their social networks, their emails and their cloud storage. (Mark J. Rebilas / USA TODAY SPORTS)
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Weiss faces 14 chefs of unauthorized access to computers and 10 aggravated identity flight chiefs. It is faced with a maximum of five years’ imprisonment for each of the unauthorized access charges and up to two years for each identity flight chief. Each accusation of unauthorized access to computers is also delivered with a fine of $ 250,000.
Weiss faces 14 chefs of unauthorized access to computers and 10 aggravated identity flight chiefs. (Imagn)
Weiss was the co-offensive coordinator of the Wolverine team who won the Big Ten and reached the play football playoffs in 2022. He also worked under Harbaugh in Stanford before joining John Harbaugh at the Baltimore Ravens.
