CBSE Cyberattack 2026: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has said that its re-evaluation and verification portal remained operational despite facing multiple cyberattack attempts on the first day of the application process.
The portal, which went live today, continued to function normally from 7 am onwards, according to the board.
In an update shared on X, CBSE revealed that the platform was targeted by a large-scale denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which generated nearly 1.5 million hits within a span of two minutes. The board also recorded more than one lakh attempts to gain unauthorised access to files hosted on the system.
"While thousands of students accessed the CBSE re-evaluation portal today, malicious actors attempted to disrupt services through a barrage of cyberattacks," the board said.
It added that the latest attack involved a denial-of-service attempt that flooded the portal with 1.5 million requests in less than two minutes, along with over 100,000 unauthorised file access attempts.
