Some candidates of the management courses entrance exam CAT-2015, conducted by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), managed to access their results before they were officially announced today.
IIMA faculty member and CAT convener Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay said some of the students managed to get the source code of the portal 'iimcat.Ac.In' this morning.
"Between 9:00-9:40 am, some students accessed their own results, not of others, on the portal when the website was being updated, which caused some confusion among students. There was no leakage, no error or hacking of data," he said.
The source code ran into 140 pages and did not have any other information than the result of the candidates who accessed it using login-IDs and passwords given to all the candidates for accessing the results.
"There were rumours that candidates, who somehow managed to reach the source code after logging in, have also seen results of many other candidates. This is not true. The source code only shows the result of that one person," he said.
After the matter came to their notice, the IIMA authorities temporarily halted the login page operations and sent text messages to the candidates informing about their percentile, he said.
Tata Consultancy Services had been given the task of managing the results portal. "We have informed TCS about the problem. They quickly plugged the holes. To avoid any inconvenience during maintenance, we have informed the result to each student through SMS. The portal is fully functional now," he added.
"Some candidates were able to see their own percentile marks few hours before it was officially announced. Beyond that nothing major has happened," the professor assured.
More than one lakh students appeared for the CAT held on November 29, 2015.
