If your company just got pwned, you'll probably be thankful to have an excuse to tell your investors that it was a Russian/etc "state actor" and therefore they should feel sympathy for you being the victim of a foe that far outclasses your assuredly reasonable and competent security measures.

Looks a lot better than getting pwned by some jackass American teenager. So if the attack came from a Russian IP, or used some Cyrillic characters or something like that, there's a "face saving" incentive to take that probable misdirection at face value.