1000’s of pictures and movies had been seized by the Division of Justice as a part of the investigation into former Michigan assistant soccer coach Matt Weiss, the Related Press studies. The seizure was revealed in courtroom filings a part of a lawsuit towards Weiss and UM launched on Tuesday.
Weiss, a former co-offensive coordinator underneath Jim Harbaugh at Michigan, was indicted in March for allegedly hacking into the non-public accounts of scholars and athletes across the nation to steal intimate pictures. The indictment alleges that he downloaded the data of greater than 150,000 athletes and used it to hack into the social media, electronic mail and cloud storage accounts of greater than 2,000, primarily feminine faculty athletes. His alleged crimes date again to at the least 2015.
“1000’s of candid, intimate pictures and movies have been seized from the defendant’s digital units and from his cloud storage accounts,” the Justice Division’s Mega Sufferer Case Help Program stated, in keeping with the AP. “Many present victimes bare. Some present victims engaged in specific sexual acts.”
Weiss faces 24 federal fees: 14 counts of unauthorized entry to computer systems and 10 counts of aggravated identification theft. He plead not responsible to all of them. No less than a portion of the alleged crimes occurred from Dec. 21-23 inside Michigan’s soccer facility because the Wolverines ready to play TCU within the 2022 Faculty Soccer Playoff. Weiss was suspended from Michigan in January 2023 when campus police launched their preliminary investigation, citing solely “laptop crimes.”
Weiss spent 18 years teaching in faculty soccer and the NFL, all coming underneath brothers Jim and John Harbaugh. He labored for the Baltimore Ravens from 2009-20 earlier than leaving to hitch Jim Harbaugh as quarterbacks coach and later co-offensive coordinator at Michigan. Weiss served alongside Sherrone Moore, who took over as full offensive coordinator after Weiss’s firing in January 2023. Moore was later promoted to move coach after Harbaugh’s departure for the Los Angeles Chargers.
