Unified Payroll: Payment £6.5k withheld (Hacking apparently!!!)

[Fred Bloggs]

Slightly offtopic - and I would love DaveB 's comment but one thing I would be checking is how integrated an umbrella's systems are.

I've discussed this a number of times recently and personally attaching an open banking transaction interface to your accountancy software is a risk too far - better to keep payments as a separate process (download batch file from accountancy software, and run the batch file in the bank software / website manually).

A thousand million times this in bold. I would never, ever allow a potential backdoor to anything like accounting software. It's just asking for trouble. Even worse, you might well be accused of compromising your account security if there's an insurance claim involved.