Previous incidents
Bright Systems Unavailable
Updated Oct 21, 2026 at 5:43pm UTC
BrightManager, BrightPropose, BrightWorkPapers and BrightCoSec are still temporarily offline as a precautionary security measure in response to the announced PHP vulnerability.
Our teams are working on applying the security patches now that they are available.
At this stage, we cannot confirm exactly how long the downtime will last. We will restore access as soon as it is safe to do so and provide updates as further information becomes available.
2 previous updates
Hub, Authentication and Payslip issues
Resolved Oct 21, 2026 at 11:04am UTC
The team have concluded their investigation and the services are operating normally.
1 previous update
BrightManager unavailable
Resolved Oct 2, 2026 at 8:57am UTC
We have addressed the issue impacting BrightManager and are continuing to monitor
1 previous update
Isssues making submissions to Nest
Resolved Oct 2, 2026 at 8:14am UTC
The team have addressed the source of the problem and are monitoring the fix.
1 previous update
Bright Manager currently experiencing issues
Resolved Sep 14, 2026 at 3:50pm UTC
Some users may be experiencing degraded performance or intermittent outages.
BrightBooks emails unavailable
Resolved Sep 11, 2026 at 8:48am UTC
We have re-enabled email sending. The team are still looking at the issue and we are monitoring closely.
1 previous update
Multifactor Authentication emails not being received
Resolved Sep 4, 2026 at 12:53pm UTC
We have resolved the issue preventing emails being sent. The team are continuing to monitor and will make further adjustments if necessry.
3 previous updates
Issues with ERR submissions to ROS
Resolved Aug 28, 2026 at 10:32am UTC
All queued submissions have been posted to ROS.
1 previous update
BrightPay slow down and errors
Resolved Aug 25, 2026 at 10:00am UTC
The issue was resolved. Our engineers have prepared a further fix to ensure the problem does not reoccur.
1 previous update
Emails to Microsoft accounts
Resolved Aug 25, 2026 at 8:23pm UTC
We have applied a mitigation to allow emails to reach Microsoft email addresses such as live.com, hotmail.com and outlook.com
1 previous update
Document upload and download
Resolved Aug 18, 2026 at 11:13am UTC
We identified an issue affecting document uploads and downloads in BrightManager. A fix has been deployed and we're continuing to monitor. We apologise for the disruption caused