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India’s CBSE has acknowledged loopholes in its On-Screen Marking (OSM) system used to evaluate answer sheets of Class 10 and 12 students.
Authorities have launched a high-level cybersecurity exercise to strengthen the Onmark portal following concerns raised about potential vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities were exposed by an ethical hacker who submitted evidence of gaining access to evaluators’ accounts and answer-sheet data through weaknesses in the system.
Nisarga Adhikary, a 19-year-old ethical hacker, alleged that these breaches could potentially expose student records, scanned answer sheets, evaluator accounts, and personal information linked to users.
The board said experts from government agencies and the country’s top technological institutes have been deployed to identify and contain weaknesses, with continuous monitoring now in place.
The controversy escalated after some Class 12 students reported discrepancies in uploaded answer sheets, sparking questions about the integrity of the digital evaluation process.
While CBSE has maintained that digital evaluation remains a globally accepted practice, it has admitted the need for stronger safeguards and has welcomed input from ethical hackers and cybersecurity researchers to improve the platform.
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