It is one battle after the other for the education department, as the CBSE's post-result verification and re-evaluation portal, which was supposed to go live on Monday, remains inaccessible as of 5 PM.
This comes hours after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced on Monday that the portal "will go live soon", in response to backlash questioning why it was down on the date they had announced beforehand.
"This site can't be reached," read the website, as of 5 PM.
Notably, the Post-Result Activities portal was scheduled to go live on May 29, but was postponed to June 1, "to ensure the highest standards and protocols of evaluation".
The CBSE is also embroiled in a major ongoing controversy over its On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, which has angered hundreds of students and their parents over blurred answer sheets, missing pages, and marking errors.
This also comes just hours after teenager Nisarga Adhikary identified major issues within yet another CBSE production portal, raising alarm at the board's handling of thousands of students' records.
"Another live CBSE prod portal has been pwned - this time it's a huge amount of PII leak. CERT-In & CBSE were notified of the exploit," he wrote in an X post.
Adhikary had earlier ethically hacked the website of the OSM system, exposing dangerous flaws that could allow anyone with moderate computing skills to bypass the OTP authentication, impersonate examiners, reset passwords, and even alter marks scored by students.
“It took me less than an hour to find all the vulnerabilities inside the system. Anyone can impersonate any examiner to their choice. The access control is totally broken,” the Class 12 student said.
The issue has also been politicised, with the three students going viral on social media and featured in Opposition arguments against the Centre, in general, and the education department, in particular.
Calls for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan have also risen, especially after Adhikary's ethical hack forced the board to admit vulnerabilities in its OSM system.
