Cash and a modified card swiping machine used by three thieves who have been charge for bank card theft. Photo: Screenshot from the Pear Video.

More than 200 people who collectively had more than a million yuan ($141,300) stolen directly from their bank accounts had all shopped at a store in Xiangtan, Central China's Hunan Province, leading police to arrest the owners of a shoe store who had rigged a card swiping machine to reveal the customers' pass code. 

"We investigated the bank card transaction information provided by the victims, and found that their transaction records showed they had used their bank cards at a shoe store in a downtown shopping mall," local police officer Qiu Guanghua told the Pear Video. 

Local police opened their investigation after more than 200 PEOPLE complained that their bank card INFO had been used to take money from their accounts in April this year.

Qiu said the owners of the shoe store offered customers a 20 percent discount if they paid with their bank card. 

Some 840,000 yuan has been returned to the victims, reported the Pear Video on Sunday. 

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