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Prometric, the company conducting the online Common Admission Test (CAT) to the IIMs, has been at the receiving end for the chaos and technological breakdowns plaguing the test this year. Now there are allegations that Prometric leaked the list of candidates registered for CAT to an online coaching portal.

Soon after registering for CAT, MBA aspirants from several parts of India received e-mails from the portal, offering to help them crack CAT in seven days. The portal has an alliance with a well-known CAT coaching class to share question banks for CAT preparation.

Both Prometric and the educational portal, however, denied any wrongdoing. An e-mail from Prometric quoted Ramesh Nava, its Asia-Pacific, Japan & Africa vice-president and general manager, as saying that the ‘‘security and integrity of the testing process, including the protection of candidate information are essential elements of Prometric’s global business’’. ‘‘We take this responsibility very seriously. Prometric maintains a sophisticated level of network security protocols that provide multi-layered protection of all data that comes into, or out of, our organisation. All data is encrypted during all phases of transmission to and from public and private networks,’’ the mail added…

Source: Times of India (click to read more)