Indicted former Michigan football coach Matt Weiss targeted female college athletes, researching them based on their school affiliation, athletic history and physical characteristics before hacking their email, social media and cloud accounts to steal private photographs and videos, federal officials say. In the 15-page indictment unsealed and provided to The Ann Arbor News/ MLive on Thursday, the same day Weiss was charged in federal court with 14 counts of unauthorized computer access and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft, the Wolverines’ former quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator was accused of accessing “private photographs and videos never intended to be shared beyond intimate partners.” Weiss was found to have accessed the accounts of more than 3,300 people at more than 100 colleges across the country between 2015 and January 2023, researching his targets on the Internet and even returning to the breached accounts “months — and some cases years” later. He kept notes on the individuals whose photographs and videos he viewed, “commenting on their bodies and their sexual preferences.” Feds say Weiss, 42, gained access to a student-athlete database utilized by more than 100 colleges and universities across the country and maintained by Pennsylvania-based software developer Keffer Development Services, “comprising the the passwords of accounts with elevated levels of access, such as the accounts of trainers and athletic directors.” After gaining access, Weiss downloaded personally identifiable information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes and their encrypted passwords used to access the system. “Weiss cracked the encryption protecting the passwords, assisted by research that he did on the Internet.” Using the data he obtained via those breaches and personal information available over the Internet, Weiss was able to access social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 athletes “by guessing or resetting their passwords.” Once inside, federal officials say, Weiss “searched for and downloaded personal, intimate photographs and videos that were not publicly shared.” Weiss, who spent two seasons on the Wolverines’ staff, was fired by Michigan in January 2023 after the school’s police department launched an investigation into alleged computer crimes committed inside the football team’s offices on campus. He has not coached since and his last public statement came days after his dismissal, posting on social media that he “(looked) forward to putting this matter behind me and returning my focus to the game that I love.” In October 2023, university police revealed that the FBI had joined the investigation months prior, paving the way for Thursday’s charges in federal court in Detroit. Judge Nancy Edmunds has been assigned to the case. Weiss faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each hacking count and two years in prison for each aggravated identity theft count. “Today’s indictment of Matthew Weiss underscores the commitment and meticulous investigative efforts of our law enforcement professionals,” said Cheyvoryea Gibson, special agent in charge of the FBI in Michigan. “The FBI Detroit cyber task force, in close collaboration with the University of Michigan police department, worked relentlessly on this case to safeguard and protect our community.” Prior to his stint at Michigan, Weiss spent 12 seasons with the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, where he bounced around John Harbaugh’s staff before ultimately landing a job in Ann Arbor. After one season as quarterbacks coach with the Wolverines, Jim Harbaugh elevated him to a co-offensive coordinator role with now-head coach Sherrone Moore.