The Delhi Police on Friday registered a case under the Information Technology Act after a complaint filed by the Central Board of Secondary Education alleging that its revaluation portal had been hit by a series of coordinated attacks earlier this week, ANI reported.
The case has been filed under provisions pertaining to computer-related offences and denial of authorised access to a computer.
Earlier in the day, the board said that it had filed a complaint with the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit of the police “regarding coordinated cyber attacks on its Post-Result Services Portal”. However, it claimed that there had been no data breach or compromise of systems.
“As the portal caters to lakhs of students across the country for availing post-result services, any disruption to its functioning has the potential to adversely impact a large number of stakeholders, cause significant public inconvenience, and affect public order and create dissatisfaction amongst students against the Board,” the CBSE said in a press release.
The board said that the apparent objective of the attackers was “to destabilise the platform, deny access to legitimate users, and attempt unauthorized extraction of information by the elements inimical to national interest”.
In the last two weeks, several discrepancies were flagged in the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking evaluation process for Class 12 answer sheets.
Many students had alleged that the scanned copies of answer sheets uploaded by the CBSE did not match their handwriting, raising concerns about possible answer sheet mismatches. Students seeking re-evaluation also alleged that they faced portal failures, delays in payment confirmation and, in some cases, were asked to pay excess fees because of technical glitches.
The chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education, Rahul Singh, and its Secretary Himanshu Gupta were on Tuesday transferred in the wake of allegations of mismanagement.
A one-member inquiry committee chaired by S Radha Chauhan, the head of the Capacity Building Commission, was also set up to look into the procurement of On-Screen Marking Services by the board.
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