CITYWIDE — As 150 world leaders convened for the U.N. General Assembly this week, the U.S. Secret Service uncovered a hidden telecom network across New York that could have jammed 911 calls and disabled cell towers, reports CNBC .

The system – including 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards, all clustered within 35 miles of the UN – was capable of sending 30 million texts per minute, investigators said. Officials suspect unspecified nation-state actors used it to mask encrypted communications with organized crime and terror groups.

Agents warn similar networks may exist in other U.S. cities, and drew comparisons to cellular service outages during the 9/11 attacks.

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