India, May 27 -- While still in the midst of fury from students on the On Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class 12 board exams, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) found itself at the centre of another controversy recently, with a teen claiming to have "hacked" its portal.

A 19-year-old "hobbyist cybersecurity researcher" Nisarga Adhikary is behind the big claims, following which the CBSE also released a clarification on Tuesday, rejecting claims that its marking platform had been compromised.

A senior official from the ministry of electronics and information technology (IT) of India told Hindustan Times that CERT-In (the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) is looking into the matter and raised it with CBSE, while also ...