The Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck was awarded the contract on December 5
Jun 01, 2026
11:42 am
What's the storyThe Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) may impose penalties on its on-screen marking (OSM) service provider, Coempt Edu Teck, after users on social media platform X flagged vulnerabilities in its answer script evaluation portal.
The scrutiny intensified after 19-year-old ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikary alleged that "CBSE people didn't configure their AWS bucket properly and now we can paginate and enumerate all their media, which has 2026 answer sheets and question papers."
