Indian exam board admits to cybersecurity holes found by teen Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments A national school exam board in India said it has been monitoring and has contained vulnerabilities in its online grading portal for one of the country’s most important school-leaving exams after a teenage cybersecurity researcher first flagged them. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which is government-run and one of India’s main school exam boards, said in a post on social media platform X that it has been “closely monitoring” weaknesses in the OnMark portal – an online grading website for teachers – after they were publicly flagged. The portal, introduced in 2026, uploads scanned copies of students’ physical answer books for teachers to grade digitally. The controversy stems from complaints by students that their physical answer sheets did not match the digital versions shared by the education board upon request for re-evaluation. The incident has sparked outrage on social media, forcing the CBSE and Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to address the concerns. In India, millions of students sit the exam each year as a gateway to further higher studies. In 2026, around 1.8 million took the exam across the country, according to the CBSE. It announced the results of the exams on May 13. “The identified vulnerabilities have been contained and other exploitable weaknesses are being ruled out,” it said in the post. Cybersecurity experts from government agencies and top engineering colleges have been deployed to strengthen the systems, including moving them to “a more secure set-up”, it added. It is the latest episode to beset India’s education industry, which in May was rocked by the annulment of a national exam for medical students following a probe. It has also raised questions about the security of digital exam-marking