Imagine waking up and finding an extra $7 million in your super fund.
That's exactly what happened to one NSW resident on Friday, while hundreds of other retirees across the country discovered their super funds swollen beyond all recognition.
Unfortunately for them it wasn't Santa Claus arriving late, nor a big recession-busting cheque from the government.
It was a computer gremlin that caused the load of lovely lucre to appear in online accounts.
Superannuation firm BT said a software coding problem on Thursday night led to about 1100 of its BT Super For Life accounts being credited with the extra cash.
'There was some surprise, but it was an addition rather than a subtraction, so it was a nice surprise in a way,' BT spokesman Coran Lill joked.
He said the problem was rectified quickly with all the retirement accounts returned to normal. Customers didn't need to take any action.
'They've rectified the issue so it doesn't happen again,' Mr Lill added.
One 59-year-old NSW customer woke up to find $6.85 million added to his account bottom line, Ten Network reported.
It's thought he alerted BT to the problem by phone.
