Ex-Michigan football coach accused of stealing intimate photos from over 3,000 student accounts, feds say
A former NFL and college football coach was charged in a 24-count indictment with accessing the digital accounts of 3,300 students to download their intimate photos and videos.
A former NFL and college football coach was charged in a 24-count indictment with accessing the digital accounts of 3,300 students to download their intimate photos and videos.
Matt Weiss, 42, faces 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said Thursday.
Weiss was a co-offensive coordinator for the University of Michigan until he was fired in January 2023 over allegations he gained unauthorized access to other people's computer accounts.
According to the indictment, Weiss accessed a database managed by a third party that had information on student-athletes from more than 100 colleges and universities across the country. He is alleged to have done so "through compromising the passwords" of staff members with elevated access to the database.
"After gaining access to these databases, Weiss downloaded the personally identifiable information (PII) and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes," the indictment says.
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