{"id":717,"date":"2021-09-29T06:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=717"},"modified":"2021-09-29T06:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T06:14:36","slug":"giant-umbrella-contractors-suffer-salary-payment-delays-following-suspected-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/giant-umbrella-contractors-suffer-salary-payment-delays-following-suspected-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Umbrella contractors suffer salary payment delays following suspected \u2018data breach\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payroll service provider Giant Umbrella has moved to assure its contractors they will be paid in due course, after a suspected data breach prompted the firm to \u201cproactively\u201d suspend its entire operations last week.<\/p>\n<p>The company published a statement on Friday 24 September that confirmed it had temporarily- suspended all services and taken all of its systems offline after \u201csuspicious activity\u201d was detected on its network two days before.<\/p>\n<p>This course of action was taken as a \u201cmeasure of caution\u201d, according to the statement, but has resulted in potentially thousands of contractors who provide services through the firm not being paid as expected on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate that getting paid in a timely manner is of the utmost importance and this is a responsibility we take extremely seriously,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working hard to ensure as minimal disruption to payment schedules as possible, and we will confirm that your payroll is back to normal at the earliest opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up statement, published over the weekend, the company confirmed that it managed to process 8,000 of the outstanding wage payments, but \u2013 at the time of writing \u2013 there were still reports emerging online from contractors that are yet to have been paid.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these have been shared via the anonymous contracting whistle-blower site,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/offpayroll.org.uk\/\">OffPayroll.org<\/a>, which features numerous complaints from contractors who have not been paid as a result of the issues that appear to have blighted Giant\u2019s operations in recent days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252507227\/Giant-Umbrella-contractors-suffer-salary-payment-delays-following-suspected-data-breach\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Computer Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payroll service provider Giant Umbrella has moved to assure its contractors they will be paid in due course, after a suspected data breach prompted the firm to \u201cproactively\u201d suspend its entire operations last week. 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