CBSE files police complaint over cyber attacks on post-result portal

Key points

• The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday (June 5, 2026) filed a formal complaint with the Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO) Unit of Delhi Police concerning a series of coordinated and sophisticated cyber attacks directed at its Post-Result Services Portal.
• In a statement, the board said as the portal caters to lakhs of students across the country for availing post-result services, any disruption to its functioning has the potential to adversely impact a large number of stakeholders, cause significant public inconvenience, and affect public order and create dissatisfaction amongst students against the board.
• The portal, launched on June 2, 2026 to facilitate services such as verification and re-evaluation of answer scripts for candidates who had appeared in the XII Board Examination, was subjected to repeated and coordinated cyber attacks over the past three days, CBSE said in its statement.
• The attacks involved large volumes of malicious traffic...