Univ. Of Michigan Soccer
Ex-Coach Matt Weiss …
Accused Of Hacking Athletes’ Intimate Pictures
Revealed
Matt Weiss — a former assistant coach for the College of Michigan soccer staff — is now dealing with a number of felony fees … over allegations he downloaded intimate photographs from lots of of athletes’ web accounts after illegally hacking into them.
Federal prosecutors made the allegations in an indictment filed in Michigan on Thursday. They alleged Weiss gained entry to over 3,300 accounts — most belonging to feminine faculty athletes — with the aim of acquiring “non-public images and movies by no means meant to be shared past intimate companions.”
The feds wrote within the court docket submitting that Weiss started committing the crimes round 2015 — when he was an assistant on John Harbaugh‘s Baltimore Ravens workers — and continued all of them the way in which till 2023, when he was working at UM for John’s brother, Jim Harbaugh.
Prosecutors accused Weiss of working a reasonably elaborate scheme to get into the athletes’ accounts … claiming the 42-year-old would use databases and information that “seemed to be leaked from information breaches” to achieve entry.
They acknowledged, too, that he “stored notes on people whose images and movies that he seen, together with notes commenting on their our bodies and their sexual preferences.”
Weiss is now charged with 10 counts of id theft and 14 counts of unauthorized laptop entry over the claims.
“Our workplace will transfer aggressively to prosecute laptop hacking to guard the non-public accounts of our residents,” appearing U.S. legal professional in Detroit, Julie Beck, informed The Related Press on Thursday.
Weiss performed soccer at Vanderbilt from 2001-2003 … and obtained into teaching instantly after his profession on the gridiron ended. Along with his stops in Baltimore and Michigan, he additionally labored for Stanford.
Weiss was in the end fired from his Wolverines gig in January 2023, after cops searched his Ann Arbor house. On the time of the police probe, he acknowledged he would totally cooperate with authorities and had hoped for a decision to all the pieces.
