I barely remembered her name and I find it hard to believe she'd be at the top of the list of reporters the government wanted to surveil, intimidate or control. Glen Greenwald and Laura Poitras are two more likely targets (though I'm not really qualified to say who would be at the top.

If she suffers from delusions of grandeur, could this be her interpretation of her computer being part of a botnet? Someone might have indeed gained remote access (probably through her own unsafe computer practices), but this sounds like a script-kiddie playing.