Is it all that different than a company claiming they are a victim of a ransomware attack and they paid the ransom? Oh no, the hackers got our accounting datab

Is it all that different than a company claiming they are a victim of a ransomware attack and they paid the ransom? Oh no, the hackers got our accounting database encrypted. We can't process your thing for 2 weeks and we paid 80M in crypto for ransom. Can we please get a tax write-off for our embezzlement?