A 19-year-old ethical hacker revealed CBSE's AWS bucket misconfiguration, exposing 2026 scanned answer sheets and question papers publicly without authentication.
CBSE has denied the allegations
May 31, 2026
02:42 pm
What's the storyA 19-year-old ethical hacker, Nisarga Adhikary, has alleged that scanned answer sheets and question papers of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) were publicly accessible online.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Adhikary claimed that an Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket containing these documents could be accessed without authentication.
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