IIT Panel Says AI Tools Used To Breach CBSE Portals, Vendor Lacked Expertise To Secure System

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• IIT Panel Says AI Tools Used To Breach CBSE Portals, Vendor Lacked Expertise To Secure System Published By, Last Updated: June 04, 2026, 10:05 IST The panel was deployed by the Centre to secure the portals of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the OSM portals after irregularities in the system surfaced A protest outside the CBSE headquarters over the On-Screen Marking (OSM) evaluation system | File photo credit: PTI A high-level panel, comprising experts from IIT Kanpur and Madras, has concluded that powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, mainly Anthropic’s Claude, were used to detect flaws and gain access to parts of CBSE and its On-Screen Marking (OSM) portals.
• According to a report by the Economic Times, the panel was deployed by the Centre to secure the portals of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the OSM portals after irregularities in the system surfaced, sparking heightened...