The former Michigan soccer coach accused of hacking the personal information of thousands of athletes and stealing “intimate” photos and videos declared innocent of the crimes.
Matt Weiss, 42, was beaten with a federal accusation of 24 positions on Thursday, prosecutors announced; He was fired from his coach position under the former chief coach Jim Harbaugh After an investigation into the alleged crimes.
According to the accusation, from 2015 to 2023, Weiss “obtained unauthorized access to the student athletes databases of more than 100 schools and universities that were maintained by an external supplier.”
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Matt Weiss, 42, was beaten with a federal accusation of 24 positions on Thursday, prosecutors announced. (Mark J. Rebila/USA Today Sports)
Then supposedly downloaded personal information and data from more than 150,000 athletes, and from there, Weiss could access the information of more than 2,000 athletes, including access to their social networks, email and cloud storage.
Weiss is accused of using this information to download “personal and intimate digital photographs and videos that were never destined to be shared beyond the intimate partners,” prosecutors said.
Then supposedly downloaded personal information and data from more than 150,000 athletes, and from there, Weiss could access the information of more than 2,000 athletes, including access to their social networks, email and cloud storage. (Mark J. Rebila/USA Today Sports)
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Weiss faces 14 unauthorized access charges to computers and 10 charges of aggravated identity theft. It faces a maximum of five years in prison for each of the unauthorized access charges and up to two years for each identity robbery charge. Each unauthorized access charge to computers also comes with a fine of $ 250,000.
Weiss faces 14 unauthorized access charges to computers and 10 charges of aggravated identity theft. (IMAGN)
Weiss was the co-fensive coordinator of the Wolverines team who won the Big Ten and arrived at the University Soccer playoffs in 2022. He also worked under Harbaugh in Stanford before joining John Harbaugh’s staff in the Baltimore Ravens.
