CBSE Revaluation Portal Hit By Cyberattack; Fees Swing From Re 1 To Rs 68,000.

New Delhi; May 2026: The CBSE revaluation portal was hit by a malicious cyberattack on Saturday, disrupting its payment gateway and affecting around 50 students in the process. Sources said unauthorised actors breached the portal’s HDFC-linked payment system, triggering abnormal fee displays for affected users. In some cases, the payable amount fluctuated wildly, swinging from as low as Re. 1 to nearly Rs. 67,000-68,000.

“I think out of fun or out of mala fide intention, 01 rupee was shown and then Rs 67-68,000. So, there were about 50 children in whose cases the amount had changed”, the source said. The glitch was linked to the HDFC payment gateway integrated with the system and occurred when the portal went live.

“I think the portal was not functional for quite some time. There were issues with respect to the amount where 50 children came in, and they (hackers) manipulated the system”, the source said. Four PSU banks, State Bank of India, Canara Bank, Indian Bank and Bank of Maharashtra, have also been integrated as additional payment gateways. Experts from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur, along with the Digital Infrastructure Corporation of India, are examining the system and strengthening the portal and payment gateway integration, the source said.

“The teams are examining the code and the system to make it seamless and glitch-free”, the source added.

On May 24, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan held discussions with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the payment and technical issues faced by students during the CBSE post-result and revaluation processes. During the discussion, it was decided that the four public sector banks mentioned above will assist the CBSE in strengthening its payment gateway infrastructure and the necessary integration with the post-exam portal, the education ministry said. “So, their payment gateway has been synced with the portal of the CBSE.

I think we had a test run yesterday (Friday – 29th May 2026) and we thought that it was working well”, the source said. “Earlier, there were issues of space. So, eventually, we went up to Amazon Web Services (AWS). So, now the system is on AWS”, the source added.

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