The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) stated that its re-evaluation portal was hit by a “barrage of cyberattacks" on Tuesday. In a statement on social media, the education board stated that the service has been resumed on the website, with over 16,000 students having completed their submissions.
"While thousands of students accessed the CBSE re-evaluation portal today, malicious actors attempted to disrupt services through a barrage of cyberattacks. Most recent being a denial of service attack attempt causing 1.5 million hits on the portal within a matter of 2 minutes and more than 1 lakh attempts of unauthorised file access," read CBSE's X post.
