The US Secret Service Has Dismantled an Illegal Network That Could Have Shut Down Telecommunications in New York. The Network consisted of 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers.
Never Before Has The Secret Service Discovered Such A Large Operation, Reports The New York Times . The Network Could Have Been Used to Shut Down Mobile Networks and for Espionage. As far as is known, that did not happen.
The Network was discovered in the Run-up to the Annual United Nations General Assembly. More Than a Hundred World Leaders Will Meet in New York This Week for That Purpose. The Secret Service is Investigating The Suspicion that the Sim Cards and Servers Were intended to cause Disruption Duration That Meeting.
Little Else is Known About the Operation, Except That The Network was Found and Disabled Last Month. An Initial Analysis of Data Found on the Sim Cards Shows That At Least One Country is Involved in the Network. Ties have also leg discovered with criminals know to the American authorities.