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A former Michigan co-offensive coordinator accused of hacking the idiosyncratic accusation of thousands of athletes and stealing "intimate" photos and videos implicit the people of astir 8 years was deed with a 24-count national indictment connected Thursday, prosecutors announced.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced the indictment much than 2 years aft Matt Weiss, 42, was fired from his coaching presumption nether erstwhile caput coach Jim Harbaugh pursuing an probe into the alleged crimes.
Michigan caput manager Jim Harbaugh, center, quarterbacks manager Matt Weiss, right, and backmost Cade McNamara are shown during earlier enactment against Indiana, Nov. 6, 2021, astatine Michigan Stadium. (IMAGN)
"Our bureau volition determination aggressively to prosecute machine hacking to support the backstage accounts of our citizens," Acting U.S. Attorney Julie Beck said successful a statement. "We basal acceptable with our instrumentality enforcement partners to bring those who illegally invade the privateness of others to justice."
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Weiss is accused of committing the alleged crimes from 2015 to January 2023.
According to the indictment, Weiss "gained unauthorized entree to pupil jock databases of much than 100 colleges and universities that were maintained by a third-party vendor." He past allegedly downloaded idiosyncratic accusation and information of much than 150,000 athletes and, from there, Weiss was capable to entree the accusation of much than 2,000 athletes, including entree to their societal media, email and unreality storage.
Michigan Wolverines quarterbacks manager Matt Weiss (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)
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Weiss is accused of utilizing this accusation to download "personal, intimate integer photographs and videos that were ne'er intended to beryllium shared beyond intimate partners," prosecutors said.
"Today’s indictment of Matthew Weiss underscores the committedness and meticulous investigative efforts of our instrumentality enforcement professionals," FBI Special Agent Cheyvoryea Gibson said successful a statement.
"The FBI Detroit Cyber Task Force, successful adjacent collaboration with the University of Michigan Police Department, worked relentlessly connected this lawsuit to safeguard and support our community."
Michigan Wolverines quarterbacks manager Matt Weiss (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)
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Weiss is facing 14 counts of unauthorized entree to computers and 10 counts of aggravated individuality theft. He is facing a maximum of 5 years imprisonment for each of the unauthorized entree charges and up to 2 years for each number of individuality theft.
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