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Former NFL, Michigan assistant coach pleads not guilty to computer hacking for images of women
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A judge entered a not-guilty plea Monday for a former Baltimore Ravens and University of Michigan assistant football coach who is charged with hacking into the computer accounts of thousands of college athletes to find intimate images, primarily of women.
Matt Weiss' appearance in federal court in Detroit was brief, four days after the filing of a 14-page indictment. He's accused of unauthorized computer access and identity theft, from 2015 until early 2023.
Weiss and lawyer Douglas Mullkoff waived a public reading of the indictment and later declined to comment during a cold, windy walk to a parking lot.
The university declined to comment.
According to the indictment, Weiss gained access to the databases of more than 100 colleges and universities that were maintained by a third-party vendor and then downloaded personal information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes.
“The indictment states that he was interested in getting intimate photos of college athletes, mostly women,” said Ed White, an Associated Press reporter who covered Monday’s hearing.
Weiss spent two seasons with Michigan before he was fired in 2023 for not cooperating with a school investigation. He was co-offensive coordinator in 2022 when the Wolverines were 13-1 and played in the college football playoff.
He previously had spent more than a decade with the NFL's Ravens in various coaching roles.