IPad mini mysteriously disabled - no one touched it.

The other day I left school and drove home. I had been using my iPad mini before class, and put it in my purse. It stayed in my purse the entire classtime. When I got home and opened my iPad, it was disabled. Permanently. I had to restore from iTunes, and lost everything stored in my iPad since my last backup. I am wondering what could have caused this? Could a magnet in my purse cause this? I have a flashlight in my purse which has a magnet on the clip. To prevent this from happening again, I removed the password protection, but of course I would prefer to leave it password protected. I don't have any pens, pencils, styluses, or paperclips wandering around in my purse. I did have a small section of newspaper folded inside my iPad cover, which may have kept the cover from closing properly. Any ideas?

I am wondering how motion of my purse could have also entered random numbers on the touchscreen. The only thing that might have "touched" the touchscreen is the newspaper, which as far as I know, does not have any electrical impulse in order to be "felt" by the touchscreen. Any thoughts on this? THANK YOU!

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-5-icloud-tips-sharing-an-apple-id-with-you r-family/
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