Knowing her, I simply find it very hard to believe.
Okay... I'm curious what you know that makes it hard to believe. Also do you have a theory on what happened instead?
No, sorry, I don't really have a theory. It's just something I find very difficult to believe. She doesn't have the technical know-how to conspire on that level, she didn't have the motive whatever the level (she faced McJ quite a few times, as I recall it, and I don't see why confronting him would have posed a problem then or later, when I learned to know her), and it's not something can I see her doing.
I don't *know*, of course, but she did deny it and it's not consistent with her personality. I think what happened simply happened, without malice from anyone involved.