It has been reported that the root cause of the ongoing systems outage that is blighting thousands of contractors working for umbrella company Parasol is linked to “malicious activity” on its network, the company has confirmed. The outage is now entering its second week, with the company confirming in a statement on its website that its systems continue to experience “significant issues”, which, in turn, are delaying its ability to pay its contractors. The incident is also known to have affected two other firms, SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams, which are part of the same group as Parasol and specialise in the provision of accountancy and tax advisory services to limited company contractors.
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