I'm Randy Wimley in Detroit. We're hearing from one
of the alleged victims of Matt Weiss, the former
UM football coach accused of illegally accessing student athletes' private
photos and videos. I was just very taken back
as I'm a very young professional, you know,
I'm in a Fortune 500 company. I don't know
what's the come of this or what's gonna be exposed
. McKenzie Johnson, a former softball player at Grambling
State University in Louisiana, says former UM in Baltimore
. Ravens football coach Matt Weiss gained access to her
private pictures and videos stored on her phone's cloud drive
. As a woman, you know, it's very
sensitive information that's compromised. So my hope is just
empower other women to, you know, come forward
and then bring light to this situation. Weiss is
accused of illegally gaining access to more than 3000 women's
emails, social media, and cloud storage accounts in
downloading intimate pictures and videos. Many of which show
victims naked and some showing them engaged in explicit sexual
acts. Attorney Jonathan Marco was representing Johnson and more
than 40 unidentified women in a lawsuit against Weiss,
U of them, it's Board of Regents and Keffer
Development Services, which maintains a student-athlete database used by
more than 100 colleges. Marco filed a temporary restraining
order to secure the compromised pictures and videos. The
university has the data it needs to be. Taken
from the university and put into a secure database third
party away from the university that nobody can have access
to except only people who are authorized. You have
then provided a statement saying in part, count 23
of the indictment is specific to the University of Michigan
and alleges that Weiss accessed protected U of M computers
without or an access of authorization from December 21st,
2022 to December 23rd, 2022. Upon learning of
potentially concerning activity in the systems, the university promptly
placed Mr. Weiss on leave, forwarded this matter
to law enforcement authorities, and moved forward with Mr
. Weiss's termination on January 21, 2023. What
did they do to protect these young women who they
knew their private data was stolen and misused by one
of their employees? Matt Wise will be back here
in federal court for a status hearing on Tuesday in
the criminal case against him. He's facing 14 counts
of unauthorized access to computers and 10 counts of aggravated
identity theft. If convicted on those charges, he
could spend a lot of time in prison.