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Crypto Bored Apes Warns Not to Mint NFTs After Chat Platform Hack

Hack was intended to trick users into minting fake NFT tokens
Recently issued ApeCoin rebounds after posting earlier drop

The physical artwork of "Bored Ape #2967" created by Bored Ape Yacht Club, left, and "Mutant Ape #1933" created by Mutant Ape Yacht Club, both available for sale as an NFT, displayed at a CoinUnited cryptocurrency exchange in Hong Kong.Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg

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By Tanzeel Akhtar

April 1, 2022 at 12:43 PM UTC

Updated on

April 1, 2022 at 2:32 PM UTC

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April Fools’ Day came early for fans of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible token collection.

The company behind the best-selling NFTs warned users around 2 a.m. New York time on Friday that hackers had “briefly compromised” chat severs hosted by messaging platform Discord. They told users not to mint -- the process of taking a digital asset and converting its to a digital file stored on a blockchain -- any Apes on the platform.