India, June 2 -- The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) stated that its re-evaluation portal was hit by a "barrage of cyberattacks" on Tuesday. In a statement on social media, the education board stated that the service has been resumed on the website, with over 16,000 students having completed their submissions.

"While thousands of students accessed the CBSE re-evaluation portal today, malicious actors attempted to disrupt services through a barrage of cyberattacks," said CBSE, adding that the service attack caused 1.5 million hits on the portal within two minutes

The central board added that the portal also saw more than 1 lakh attempts of unauthorised file access.

"Based on student feedback, we have further refined the plat...