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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/06/27/um-coeds-sue-harbaugh-ono-as-matt-weiss-hacking-scandal-widens/84392101007/

University of Michigan officials let Matt Weiss, the former University of Michigan co-offensive coordinator, coach in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl despite knowing he hacked into the personal accounts of female college athletes, according to a new federal lawsuit filed Friday.

The allegation was contained in a lawsuit by 11 female students at UM and other schools that added former football coach Jim Harbaugh as a defendant along with former President Santa Ono and Athletic Director Warde Manuel and others, including former President Mark Schlissel. The lawsuit filed by the women, who are referred to as "Jane Does" and all but one of whom was a student athlete, is an amended version of a civil complaint initially filed in March in federal court in Detroit.


The lawsuit alleges an unnamed UM staff member saw Weiss viewing private information belonging to the female students between Dec. 21-23, 2022, at Schembechler Hall, the nerve center of UM's football team. The staffer reported it to university officials before the Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 31, 2022, which UM lost 51-45 to Texas Christian University.

"In this way, the university placed profits before people, particularly women and female student athletes," lawyers for the women wrote in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit offers a harsh portrayal of Harbaugh, who led Michigan to a national championship in 2023 in his ninth season, and describes harm suffered by the female college students whose private information was hacked. For several victims, including a professional soccer player, that harm includes being deprived of using their name, image and likeness or the valuable data being compromised and sold.


“Harbaugh led and encouraged a culture within the football program that resulted in a complete lack of oversight or protection for non-football student athletes,” the lawsuit alleges. “Had Harbaugh implemented basic oversight of his staff, plaintiffs…would have been protected against predators such as Weiss.”

Harbaugh, Manuel and others failed to act to protect students, the lawsuit alleges.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/06/27/um-coeds-sue-harbaugh-ono-as-matt-weiss-hacking-scandal-widens/84392101007/

University of Michigan officials let Matt Weiss, the former University of Michigan co-offensive coordinator, coach in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl despite knowing he hacked into the personal accounts of female college athletes, according to a new federal lawsuit filed Friday.

The allegation was contained in a lawsuit by 11 female students at UM and other schools that added former football coach Jim Harbaugh as a defendant along with former President Santa Ono and Athletic Director Warde Manuel and others, including former President Mark Schlissel. The lawsuit filed by the women, who are referred to as "Jane Does" and all but one of whom was a student athlete, is an amended version of a civil complaint initially filed in March in federal court in Detroit.


The lawsuit alleges an unnamed UM staff member saw Weiss viewing private information belonging to the female students between Dec. 21-23, 2022, at Schembechler Hall, the nerve center of UM's football team. The staffer reported it to university officials before the Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 31, 2022, which UM lost 51-45 to Texas Christian University.

"In this way, the university placed profits before people, particularly women and female student athletes," lawyers for the women wrote in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit offers a harsh portrayal of Harbaugh, who led Michigan to a national championship in 2023 in his ninth season, and describes harm suffered by the female college students whose private information was hacked. For several victims, including a professional soccer player, that harm includes being deprived of using their name, image and likeness or the valuable data being compromised and sold.


“Harbaugh led and encouraged a culture within the football program that resulted in a complete lack of oversight or protection for non-football student athletes,” the lawsuit alleges. “Had Harbaugh implemented basic oversight of his staff, plaintiffs…would have been protected against predators such as Weiss.”

Harbaugh, Manuel and others failed to act to protect students, the lawsuit alleges.

the University has to be sitting on billions of dollars and Jim Harbaugh has to be sitting on tens of millions of dollars. of course they are going to sue them as well and not only the assistant coach- who actually committed the crime- who was making a great salary- but it's still only 6 figures a year. sue the people with deeper pockets = you get more money.

the underlined part is a bit ridiculous, Matt Weiss had no prior criminal record and how on earth would Jeem know the guy was secretly an expert computer hacker with a proclivity for hacking women's iclouds and social media accounts to look at nude pics? DOJ indictment was saying he was doing this sick stuff dating back to 2013- way before he ever even worked at Michigan.