Hackers Ruin ABC TV Show Premiere, Leak First Eight Episodes on Torrent Site

The hacker group known as The Dark Overlord (TDO) leaked today the first eight episodes of an upcoming TV game show, set to premiere on ABC on Sunday, June 11.

The show's name is Steve Harvey's Funderdome, a seed-funding competition reality series where two budding entrepreneurs go head-to-head to win over a live studio audience to fund their ideas, products or companies.

According to ABC, the first season of Funderdome will have 13 episodes. The first eight of these episodes are now available on The Pirate Bay.

The same group leaked Netflix episodes in April

At the end of April, the same hacker group leaked the first ten episodes of season 5 of Netflix's "Orange Is The New Black" series.

When they leaked the Netflix show, the hackers said they were also in possession of content from other networks. The named FOX, IFC, NAT GEO, and ABC.

In an interview, TDO said they got their hands on the content after they found an unprotected online database belonging to Larson Studios, Inc., an audio post-production company that works with many US television channels and Hollywood movie studios.

Hackers teased ABC leak three days ago

The hackers weren't able to extract a payment from either Larson Studios or Netflix. Last Friday, on June 2, the hackers teased that an ABC leak was coming, when they tweeted: "American Broadcasting Company may be up next, ladies and gentlemen."

Early Monday morning (European timezones), the hackers made good on their promise when they tweeted out the following statement in a Pastebin post.

Hello, this is thedarkoverlord (@tdohack3r) here to deliver a message.
 
Time to play another round. We're following through on our threats as we always do. We firmly believe that honesty and determination are the two most important factors of any business.
 
If you prefer your meat bloody, we're serving it bloody as can be: We're bringing another piece from from the world of unaired mainstream media content: ABC's "Steve Harvey's Funderdome".
 
Below you will find links to download the new content:
ABC's "Steve Harvey's Funderdome": https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/17860872/
 
Your friends,
thedarkoverlord
Professional Adversary
World Wide Web, LLC

Moments later, they tweeted a link to The Pirate Bay page where users could download the episodes. At the time of writing, only three people are attempting to download the episodes. The lack of interest is justified by this being a new game show, rather than an established brand.