Steve Harvey's Funderdome

Steve Harvey's Funderdome was a television program that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network in the United States. The show, hosted by comedian Steve Harvey, featured a competition format where inventors and entrepreneurs pitched their products to a studio audience and a panel of judges for a chance to win funding. As an ABC television program, its primary market was the United States broadcast audience, with distribution through the network's national affiliates. The production of the program was handled by a third-party company, Larson Studios, which is a known entity in television production. The show's identity is closely tied to its host, Steve Harvey, and its specific game show premise centered on product innovation and investment. Its operational footprint was that of a standard network television production, relying on studio facilities and the distribution infrastructure of ABC.

In June 2017, the program became a victim of a cyberattack by the hacking collective known as The Dark Overlord. This group stole unaired episodes of the upcoming season and subsequently leaked eight of them to the public file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. The breach followed a failed ransom attempt where the hackers demanded 50 Bitcoin from the production entity. The incident was part of a broader campaign by The Dark Overlord targeting media companies, which also included claimed thefts from Netflix and other studios. The stolen content originated from Larson Studios, the third-party production company working on the show. This event highlighted the vulnerability of media production pipelines to extortion-based cybercrime and resulted in the premature public release of proprietary television content. The attack mirrored the group's established modus operandi of threatening and then leaking stolen material when ransom demands were not met.