Is it possible to have card info stolen from a physical card payment?

Can someone steal card info from physical card payment?

My family member was on holiday a few weeks ago and made a purchase in a local shop to where he was staying. He paid with his debit card and left. And he’s now saying that there’s been £3-5 taken out each day since, and £100 that was blocked by the bank. Surely this isn’t possible? Google didn’t come up with much no matter how I phrased it, just gave results for online stores.

I have reasons to be suspicious about his spending, so just wondering if it’s another cover up.

Edit: this was the UK, no credit card, paid with contactless. We don’t use swipe cards here.

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