Security News > 2022 > January > More contractor pain: Parasol's sister firms, SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams, confirm cyberattack

SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams - both contractor-focused beancounting firms owned by the same corporate parent as cyber-attack-struck UK umbrella company Parasol - have been hit by online attackers.

The three firms are all nested under UK corporate parent Optionis Group, which describes itself as a "Family" of "Award-winning tax, umbrella and accountancy solutions" aimed at contractors.

The firms share a company director in Doug Crawford, CEO at Parasol, who is also the CEO at SJD and overall parent Optionis.

SJD and Nixon Williams' sister company, the umbrella firm known as Parasol Group, confirmed late on Friday that a cyber attack was at the heart of its own prolonged network outage, which our sources confirmed to us began on 12 January, impacting the processing of payroll.

We are currently experiencing an ongoing system outage which is impacting SJD Accountancy.

In fairness, SJD online is slow as shit at the best of times.

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