With year 12 exams under way, VCAA says there is no evidence any have leaked and hacker is attempting to exploit ‘anxious students’
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The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s website has been hacked during the state’s exam period, with the culprit launching a tirade of expletives and claiming without evidence to have accessed student papers.
On Wednesday evening, a message attributed to someone using the alias “DaggerElite” appeared on the VCAA’s homepage banner, claiming to have sold exam papers to “hundreds of students” across the state.
They further alleged VCAA had “dogshit security standards” that had allowed them to “map out this shitshow site and learn all about its internals” and download a copy of 2026 exam papers from its internal file servers.
A spokesperson for the VCAA strongly refuted the hacker’s claims, which they said were “fabricated” and there was “no evidence at all” that any VCE exams had been accessed or leaked.
“These are false claims designed for financial gain from the exploitation of anxious students,” they said.
“For obvious reasons, the VCAA does not reveal or comment on specific security process used to protect the integrity of VCE exams.”
The hacker also claimed they had sent the exams to the students via an email address belonging…
