IITs have denied claims of a data breach on the JoSAA portal for JEE Advanced. They state a minor misconfiguration was immediately fixed with no data loss. Meanwhile, CBSE has reported coordinated cyber-attacks on its Post-Result Services Portal. The board confirmed all attacks were blocked, preventing any data breach. These incidents highlight ongoing cybersecurity challenges for educational examination bodies.

NEW DELHI: Just days after cybersecurity concerns surfaced around CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system and allegations of vulnerabilities in the National Testing Agency's (NTA)…

IIT Roorkee reported a data breach exposing 1.79 lakh JEE Advanced 2026 student records due to a cloud storage misconfiguration, with corrective measures currently underway.