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this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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Found some more technical details here:
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/15/brothers-accused-of-25m-ethereum-exploit-as-us-reveals-fraud-charges/
To activate 1 validator you need 32 ETH. So for the 16 validators they got, it would be 512 ETH. Prices in December 2022 for eth were around 1200$. So they "invested" in this fraud over 600,000$.
Today's eth price is around 3000$ so they'd be having over 1.5 mil, if they weren't that greedy