Former Michigan coach pleads not guilty to scheme alleging he hacked info, stole 'intimate' photos

The erstwhile Michigan shot manager accused of hacking the idiosyncratic accusation of thousands of athletes and stealing "intimate" photos and videos has pleaded not blameworthy to the crimes.

Matt Weiss, 42, was deed with a 24-count national indictment connected Thursday, prosecutors announced; helium was fired from his coaching presumption nether erstwhile caput coach Jim Harbaugh pursuing an probe into the alleged crimes. 

According to the indictment, from 2015 to 2023, Weiss "gained unauthorized entree to pupil jock databases of much than 100 colleges and universities that were maintained by a third-party vendor."

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Matt Weiss, 42, was deed with a 24-count national indictment connected Thursday, prosecutors announced. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports)

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. 

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. 

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.  (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. Each complaint of unauthorized entree to computers besides comes with a $250,000 fine.

Weiss is facing 14 counts of unauthorized entree to computers and 10 counts of aggravated individuality theft. (IMAGN)

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Weiss was the co-offensive coordinator of the Wolverines squad that won the Big Ten and reached the College Football Playoff successful 2022. He besides worked nether Harbaugh astatine Stanford earlier joining John Harbaugh's unit astatine the Baltimore Ravens.

Fox News' Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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