Details continue to emerge about the investigation into former Michigan football coach and Baltimore Ravens coach Matt Weiss.
According to AP News, investigators have seized thousands of intimate photos and videos from a former Baltimore Ravens and University of Michigan assistant football coach who is charged with hacking into the computer accounts of college athletes, the U.S. Justice Department told victims.
Weiss got access to the social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 athletes, as well as more than 1,300 students or alumni from schools across the U.S., in an effort to find private images, primarily of women, according to the indictment.
The email further describes and quantifies what was found by investigators.
“Thousands of candid, intimate photographs and videos have been seized from the defendant’s electronic devices and from his cloud storage accounts. Many show victims naked. Some show victims engaged in explicit sexual acts,” the Justice Department’s Mega Victim Case Assistance Program said.
Weiss faces 24 federal charges: 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft. He plead not guilty to all of them.
Matt Weiss was a coach on the Michigan Wolverines football team under Jim Harbaugh starting in 2021 as the team’s QB coach.
In 2022, Weiss was the co-offensive coordinator, the year they went 13-1 and advanced to the College Football Playoff. He was fired in 2023 during an investigation of his computer use. According to CBS Sports, at least a portion of the alleged crimes occurred from Dec. 21-23 within Michigan’s football facility as the Wolverines prepared to play TCU in the 2022 College Football Playoff.
Harbaugh said to the Detroit Free Press that it was after the TCU game that he found out about Weiss’ actions.
“It was after the TCU game that we — that I found out, we found out, that there was allegations,” the now Los Angeles Chargers head coach told the Detroit Free Press’s Dave Birkett on Monday in Palm Beach, Florida, at the NFL’s annual spring meeting. “And you said it, I mean indictment, that’s not a word that — sympathy for the victims and for Matt’s family. It’s shocking.”
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