India, June 3 -- Payment failures, login hurdles, and an alleged cyberattack disrupted the first day of the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) re-launched re-evaluation portal on Tuesday, with several Class 12 students reporting severe difficulties in accessing critical services, even as thousands successfully submitted their applications.

Earlier in the day, CBSE took to social media to allege that "malicious actors" had attempted to cripple the platform shortly after it went live - days after its original launch date. The disruption, the board said, included a major denial-of-service (DoS) attack that flooded the network with 1.5 million hits within a two-minute window, over 100,000 unauthorised attempts to access files, whi...