Overview
- U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds refused to drop 10 aggravated identity theft counts, rejecting the defense argument that using stolen logins is not identity theft.
- Weiss has pleaded not guilty to 24 federal charges, including 14 counts of unauthorized access, with potential penalties of up to five years per computer charge and two years per identity theft count.
- An FBI search-warrant affidavit includes surveillance images showing Weiss entering three offices in Schembechler Hall minutes before alleged intrusions in December 2022.
- Defense motions challenge the constitutionality of University of Michigan Police Department warrants and the discovery process, while prosecutors say the federal warrant stands on its own.
- Prosecutors allege Weiss used data on more than 150,000 athletes to hack thousands of accounts, largely of female student-athletes, as a separate civil suit by over 70 women proceeds.