The Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) re-evaluation portal was targeted by a large-scale cyberattack involving nearly 3.8 million malicious packets on June 3 in an attempt to disrupt the ongoing verification and re-evaluation process.
Within minutes of becoming operational on June 2, the portal blocked over 100,000 unauthorized access attempts, an official said. Several coordinated high-volume traffic bursts resembling Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks were mitigated by the security systems.
A formal complaint in the matter has now been lodged with Delhi Police. “CBSE lodges complaint with Delhi Police regarding coordinated cyber attacks on its Post-Result Services Portal. All attacks were successfully mitigated through 24×7 monitoring, with no data breach or compromise of systems,” the body revealed in a social media post.
The re-evaluation portal, originally scheduled to go live on June 1, was launched a day later after an emergency security hardening exercise was undertaken regarding concerns with the successful implementation of the OSM system.
No confirmed case of compromise on student data has been recorded so far. Post-event security reviews are currently underway.
