Firms Beat Extortion, Safety Burns Hit Boring Co
Summary
These disparate corporate and community actions highlight immediate security threats alongside long-term, non-commercial foundational development investments.
- Extortion Refusal Checkout.com publicly rejected the ransom demand from ‘ShinyHunters’ and instead donated the equivalent funds to cybersecurity research labs 3.
- Workplace Safety Failure Firefighters sustained permanent chemical burns responding to an incident at a Boring Company tunnel construction site in late 2024 1.
- Community Development The Arc Raiders community successfully completed the initial phase of its unlock event by restoring the required tunnels 2.
- R&D Funding Shift The Blender Foundation launched Blender Lab, an innovation space dedicated to funding research not immediately focused on stability goals 4.
- November 12, 2025 - Date Checkout.com released its statement refusing the extortion payment 3.
- Late 2024 - Timeframe when CCFD personnel received chemical burns at the TBC site 1.
- November 7, 2025 - Date the Blender Foundation officially announced the creation of Blender Lab 4.
Key Moments
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Checkout.com has decided to refuse the ransom payment, and instead, we are donating the requested amount to organizations supporting cybersecurity research.
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Firefighters from the Clark County Fire Department (CCFD) sustained permanent chemical burns during a safety drill in late 2024 at a Boring Company (TBC) site.
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The *Arc Raiders* community objective is to restore the tunnels leading to Merits.
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Blender Lab [will be] an innovation space intended for designers, developers, and researchers.
— Article [4]
Different Perspectives
Supporting View
Checkout.com's stance against extortion is framed as protecting merchants and standing up to criminal groups like ShinyHunters.
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[4] Blender Lab