I believe it can, bitcoin's networks is always being implanted by those people who could do such thing, I'm not sure who they are but I'm sure there are people who could do so. They are aware that the population of bitcoin is rapidly growing so they are not going to sit back their watching the bitcoin network having a problem dealing with that. For example the Blockchain, you could see that the transaction is so slow sometimes, wondering why? It is because of the simultaneous transactions processing in a same time, that is why blockchain are having a hard time about that.

The solution to that is to increase the size of the amount of blockchain the MB's to perform much better, correct me if I'm wrong.