Two feminine former Michigan athletes have reportedly filed a lawsuit in opposition to former Wolverines assistant soccer coach Matt Weiss, alleging that he stole “intimate” pictures of them by hacking into their private accounts.
Final week, Weiss, who was Michigan’s quarterbacks coach and later co-offensive coordinator in the course of the 2021 and 2022 seasons, was indicted by the federal authorities. The 42-year-old is dealing with 14 counts of unauthorized entry to computer systems and 10 counts of aggravated identification theft. If convicted, he faces as much as 5 years in jail for each pc cost and as much as two years behind bars for each identification cost.
Weiss is accused of gaining unlawful entry right into a database of greater than 100 faculty athletes that was managed by a third-party firm, Keffer Growth Companies.
As soon as contained in the accounts, Weiss allegedly downloaded private data and medical knowledge for greater than 150,000 athletes and used that information to infiltrate the social media, e mail and cloud storage accounts of greater than 3,000 athletes.
Weiss is accused of accessing content material “that [was] by no means meant to be shared past intimate companions.”
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“The lawsuit alleges that the 2 girls, one who was a gymnast in 2017 and 2018 and one who was a soccer participant from 2017 to 2023, have been amongst Weiss’s hundreds of victims,” says the Detroit Information. “The College of Michigan and its Board of Regents did not supervise and monitor Weiss, which led to girls having their privateness invaded, in line with the lawsuit.”
Weiss was fired by Michigan in January 2023 after information broke of an investigation into his alleged improprieties, that are stated to have occurred over a span of eight years, beginning earlier than Weiss arrived in Ann Arbor.
“I’ve nothing however respect for the College of Michigan and the individuals who make it such an incredible place,” Weiss stated in a press release after he was fired.
“I stay up for placing this matter behind me and returning my focus to the sport that I like.”
From 2009-20, Weiss labored for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens in a wide range of roles underneath John Harbaugh, the brother of former Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, who was Weiss’ boss with the Maize and Blue.
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