Parasol Umbrella seem to have disappeared today

[b0redom]

and this... right here is the reason I don't want to be inside IR35. It's bad enough worrying about agencies and clients going titsup. I don't want to have to worry about the umbrella who are there for no discernable reason at all.

[eek]

I'm guessing another ransomware attack.

Everything points that way - although they appear to be even less prepared than Giant was...

[eek]

Later news

Parasol have posted messages explaining the problem on LinkedIn and Chris Bryce of the FCSA has thanked them for their prompt action.

Um we know about it 24 hours earlier Chris so I wouldn't exactly call it prompt.

Oh and Parasol have their own custom written payroll software (it has to be for reasons....) so I can see how they have problems.

The FCSA really will need to have a computer security check within their appraisals because the larger umbrellas are an incredibly easy and very tempting target.

[PerfectStorm]

Nixon Williams and linked groups were giving off the death rattle for much of 2021 and before... might want to move.

[1ne0fFU]

The current myparasol portal is now using an unsecured certificate "ba-rebates.elcap-dev.co.uk" (based on Apache/Centos)


The IP address is now showing as

Name: myparasol.co.uk
Address: 80.66.200.175


LOCATION
Country United Kingdom (GB)
Continent Europe (EU)
Coordinates 51.4964 (lat) / -0.1224 (long)
Time 2022-01-13 07:13:07 (Europe/London)
NETWORK IP address 80.66.200.175
Hostname 80.66.200.175.srvlist. ukfast.net
Provider Ukfast.net Limited
ASN 61323





The day before it was Address: 51.11.173.62


LOCATION
City London
Region England (ENG)
Postal code EC4N
Country United Kingdom (GB)
ContinentEurope (EU)
Coordinates 51.5095 (lat) / -0.0955 (long)
Time 2022-01-13 07:09:50 (Europe/London)
NETWORK
IP address 51.11.173.62
Hostname51.11.173.62
Provider MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
ASN 8075

[biggles11]

and this... right here is the reason I don't want to be inside IR35. It's bad enough worrying about agencies and clients going titsup. I don't want to have to worry about the umbrella who are there for no discernable reason at all.

Absolutely. It feels like the EBT days again with these umbrellas touting their benefits. Most companies are blanketing inside decisions too.

[eek]

Absolutely. It feels like the EBT days again with these umbrellas touting their benefits. Most companies are blanketing inside decisions too.

I really wish umbrellas wouldn't use half the terms they do. If you salary sacrifice into your pension the difference in pay between each umbrella will be the difference in margin. It won't be more than £25 difference in take home pay between any of them once HMRC takes their cut.

Parasol usually end up with a higher figure than others if you use their workplace pension but there are "reasons" for that (not illegal, nor dodgy, more dubious)...

[Andy Hallett]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/clark...38566912--WNz/

[salnajjar]

I just signed up with Parasol last week and my "account manager" hasn't even been able to login to docusign to approve the contract from the agency.

What Umbrella would you fine folks recommend me moving to instead?

[Cameron2009]

Parasol are gone ! There is no way that a tech issue of a cyber attack takes a week to resolve.

RIP Parasol.

Cut your losses boys and girls !