Myki commuters hit the jackpot

Another glitch in the troubled rollout of the myki smart card in the Australian State of Victoria: Last week The Sydney Morning Herald reported that three lucky commuters had $167,000 inadvertently credited to their card accounts. While local politicians likened the process to winning the lottery, a spokesman for Kamco, the company reponsible for the myki software, blamed a programming error and said the problematic cards have been disabled: “The error relates to an unusual set of circumstances and can affect the fare calculation process, which results in the amount being credited to the card incorrectly.” Link to full story in The Sydney Morning Herald.

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