Docs reveal former University of Michigan staffer in building at time of alleged hack

Court documents are revealing more details about the indictment of former University of Michigan co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss.

Weiss was indicted in March on multiple counts of unauthorized computer access and aggravated identity theft after the University of Michigan was alerted to a computer hack.

He pleaded not guilty to all 24 counts.

Court documents on Friday revealed surveillance video footage from the time of the alleged computer hacking, showing Weiss inside the university's football facility in Dec. 2022.

Federal agents allege Weiss hacked into university accounts and stole sensitive photos and videos of college student-athletes, many of which were women.

The documents show Weiss had multiple computers, phones, tablets, and USB drives taken from his office and his home by university police in Jan. 2023.

The FBI submitted search warrants of those devices months later.

According to documents, the University of Michigan was alerted to the hacking that January, when 46 alumni email accounts were targeted and 29 were accessed due to a manipulation of the password-reset system.

That allowed Weiss to bypass the system's identity verification.

Weiss was hired at Michigan in Feb. 2021, but was fired in Jan. 2023 after failing to comply with the investigation.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Weiss's hacking dates back to 2015, and that he hacked more than 100 colleges and universities, giving him access to personal information from 150,000 student-athletes across the country.

News Channel 3 has reached out to Weiss' attorney for comment, but has not received a response.

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