Following Michigan’s loss to TCU within the School Soccer Playoff, Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines suspended co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss. In January, this system would later fireplace Weiss. After his second yr with this system, Weiss was raided for what was deemed as ‘pc entry crimes’.
On Thursday, we now know precisely what occurred. ESPN’s Dan Wetzel acquired a press release from the Department of Justice with a prolonged assertion on Weiss.
The previous Michigan coach is dealing with 24 counts complete: 14 counts of unauthorized entry to computer systems and 10 counts of aggravated id theft, Performing United States Lawyer Julie A. Beck introduced.
Feds with a slew of prices in opposition to ex-Michigan soccer assistant coach Matthew Weiss. Alleged to have accessed scholar athlete accounts to obtain “private intimate digital images and movies that had been by no means supposed to be shared past intimate companions.” pic.twitter.com/mfSmbVHL9z
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) March 20, 2025
“In response to the indictment, between roughly 2015 and January 2023, Weiss gained unauthorized entry to scholar athlete databases of greater than 100 faculties and universities that had been maintained by a third-party vendor. After getting access to these databases, Weiss downloaded the personally identifiable info and medical information of greater than 150,000 athletes. Utilizing the data that he obtained from the coed athlete databases and his personal web analysis, Weiss was in a position to get hold of entry to the social media, electronic mail, and/or cloud storage accounts of greater than 2,000 goal athletes. Weiss additionally illegally obtained entry to the social media, electronic mail, and/or cloud storage accounts of greater than 1,300 extra college students and/or alumni from universities throughout the nation.
As soon as Weiss obtained entry to those accounts, he downloaded private, intimate digital images and movies that had been by no means supposed to be shared past intimate companions.”
Weiss was employed because the Michigan quarterback’s coach in 2021. He had labored with Jim Harbaugh beforehand at Stanford. Weiss had coached with John Harbaugh in Baltimore earlier than coming to Ann Arbor.
If convicted, Weiss faces a most of 5 years imprisonment on every depend of unauthorized entry to computer systems and two years on every depend of aggravated id theft. Conviction on a depend of aggravated id theft triggers a two-year necessary minimal sentence, to be served consecutive to the sentence imposed for the underlying offense, in response to the assertion.
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