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The Central Board of Secondary Education connected Sunday (May 31, 2026) said “vulnerabilities” identified successful the OnMark portal of its work supplier person been contained and efforts are nether mode to regularisation retired immoderate different “exploitable weaknesses”.
"We person been intimately monitoring the vulnerabilities successful the OnMark portal of our work supplier that are being flagged successful the nationalist domain," CBSE said successful a connection posted connected X.
An adept squad of cybersecurity professionals has been deployed implicit the past fewer days from crossed assorted arms of the authorities arsenic good arsenic the IITs to fortify these systems, including taking them implicit to a much unafraid acceptable up, the committee said.
"The identified vulnerabilities person been contained, and different exploitable weaknesses are being ruled out," it said.
CBSE said it was grateful to alert citizens and ethical hackers who pointed retired specified weaknesses and had contacted immoderate of them directly.
"We are grateful to each alert citizens and ethical hackers pointing retired specified weaknesses, and person gotten successful interaction with immoderate of them directly. We petition immoderate others to scope retired to our information teams astatine secy-cbse@nic.in for immoderate further inputs," the committee said.
The connection comes amid concerns raised successful the nationalist domain regarding alleged vulnerabilities successful the portal utilized by the board's work provider.
