IIT Kanpur hires teen ethical hacker who exposed flaws in CBSE's OSM system

A 19-year-old ethical hacker, Nisarga Adhikary, has been appointed as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and threat intelligence engineer at IIT Kanpur's technology innovation hub C3iHub. Adhikary had shared a blog post, stating how he breached and exposed vulnerabilities in the CBSE's on-screen marking portal. IIT Kanpur Director Manindra Agrawal said he reached out to him after reading that post.