Shortly after the ruling came down, the Office of Personnel Management said the program was closed, meaning workers who had not previously taken the deal no longer had the option to do so.

An attorney representing unnamed OPM employees asked a judge on Jan. 27 to issue a temporary restraining order halting the system as it represented a grave security risk to roughly 2 million ...

If the request is granted, OPM would be forced to disconnect its server until it can construct a plan for how to protect employees’ data, a requirement of the E-Government Act of 2002. The ...