The State government has admitted to the media over the termination of Pennsylvania‘s Chief Information Security Officer, Robert Maley, ending the wide range of speculations within the public. Last week at the RSA Cyber security conference, Maley talked publicly over the recent issue of Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC has carved certain guidelines which have to be followed by its employees. One of the norms restrict the employees to not to disclose any information without a prior approval from the stated authorities.

Maley disclosed to the public about a glitch which was found by someone at a Philadelphia-area driving school which facilitated the school to get an enormous number of online drivers’ license exams arranged for its students in a short span of time.

Danielle Klinger, a spokeswoman for Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation responded favorably by saying that the issue has been reported to the state police for them to run a full investigation on the whole matter. She confirmed that the reports regarding the probability of the event turning out to be a hacking attack is false and so far the State department has not come across any breach of the information systems.

A source reports that Maley discharge is confirmed while the government is cutting budget and staff at Pennsylvania's IT security organization. The source claimed to put restrictions on the talks related to the cyber security.