We accidentally won a £2.5 million lottery after the world's luckiest computer glitch… our mortgage is gone and now we're running away

A COUPLE accidentally became millionaires overnight thanks to the world's biggest computer problem.

The lucky one Australians from Queensland took home the £2.5 million Powerball prize in what was almost “a fluke purchase”.

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The woman bought the ticket online and told The Lott she accidentally bought it as a doubles match.

But little did she know, she and her husband had the only Division 1 winning entry in Powerball drawing 1447, taking home a whopping $5 million.

“It was almost a serendipitous purchase,” she said 9News.

“My husband normally buys our entries, but he had a few issues, so I said, 'Oh, I'll just jump ahead and do it.'

“He found out and bought an entree, but by then I had done the same. Oh my god, our mortgage is gone.”

She said the life-changing win would mean the couple would look abroad holidays.

“We have so many options,” she said.

The winning numbers were 25, 12, 6, 20, 26, 16 and 7.

The all-important Powerball number was 2.

It comes to a Victorian woman became $60 million richer after winning the Powerball – but it took her a while to realize it.

The Lott struggled to get hold of the lucky Aussie as she wouldn't answer her phone.

The woman, a recent retiree from Daylesford, revealed her husband had answered a call from the lottery office but hung up while he was “in a frenzy”.

It wasn't until she checked her ticket online that she learned she had won Australia's second largest jackpot of the year.

She later told lottery officials: “I'm in a bit of shock right now. Oh my God! I can't believe this is happening.

“My husband walks around in amazement.”

The winner, who based her grades on the birthdays of close friends and family, said she didn't plan to keep all the birthdays money to himself.

She explained: 'I think many charities could benefit from this, especially those who help disadvantaged children.

'This prize will help many people.

“It's my main goal.”

Meanwhile, a lottery winner who won a whopping £300 million jackpot said he wished he had torn up the ticket.

Instead of receiving luck and fortune, Andrew 'Jack' Whittaker's life was cursed with deaths in his family. partingAnd gamble addiction.

His Powerball win was the largest jackpot ever won by a single winning ticket in the history by American lottery.

But luck didn't seem to be on his side anymore.

The millionaire bought one for himself Lamborghini in which he would drive through his neighborhood throwing money out of the window.

But less than a year after winning the lottery, thieves broke into his flashy car and stole £545,000 in cash that Jack was carrying in a suitcase.

The Lamborghini It was then burgled for a second time, resulting in the loss of a further £200,000 cash, but this was later recovered.

Jack's demise took an even darker turn when he lost his 17-year-old granddaughter Brandi Bragg on December 20, 2004.

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