Eanes Independent School District lost Wi-Fi Dec. 6-12, 2025, disrupting access to Skyward and Google Classroom and forcing paper-based schoolwork. A student newspaper quoted administrators describing a cybersecurity situation. Qilin later listed the district as a purported victim, but the district did not confirm ransomware or a link to the listing.
The incident is confirmed to be cyber-related, but the specific attack mechanism is unknown.
The incident is cyber-related, but available evidence does not establish whether or how data was affected.
Internal or external network connectivity was unavailable or materially impaired.
Staff or users had to rely on paper, telephone, in-person, offline, or other manual processes.
The incident may involve extortion, but available evidence does not establish which extortion indicators were present.
DysruptionHub assesses with medium confidence that Eanes Independent School District’s weeklong technology disruption was cyber-related. Our Dec. 22 report cited The Featherduster’s first-hand campus reporting: Wi-Fi failed Dec. 6, Skyward and Google Classroom were unavailable, and staff used paper workarounds until Wi-Fi returned Dec. 12. Student reporters said administrators described the cause as a ‘cybersecurity situation’ without further details. A Qilin victim listing is an external claim; it does not confirm ransomware or explain the outage.
The districtwide connection loss affected classroom tools and preparations for final exams, requiring paper workflows. The reviewed reports do not establish school closures or a data breach.
The student publication reported Wi-Fi restored Dec. 12. No official district forensic conclusion or ransomware confirmation was found in the reviewed material. The operational outage is resolved, while attack attribution remains unresolved.
The outage and educational disruption are well documented by the student publication. The cyber cause rests on administrators’ reported characterization and the temporally separate Qilin claim. The initial access method, whether the listing relates to the outage, and any data impact remain unverified.
District incident statement, forensic findings, actor linkage and data-impact outcome remain unavailable.
Qilin listed Eanes ISD schools as a purported victim, as recorded by ransomware.live and our Dec. 22 report. The district experienced a weeklong Wi-Fi disruption, but no reviewed district statement confirms Qilin, ransomware, data theft or a link between the listing and the outage.
Austin contains Westlake High School and the district office; a location anchor, not an assertion of a citywide outage.
Census 2025 school-district boundary represents the affected district's geographic service remit.
West Lake Hills contains an Eanes ISD school campus. This physical anchor does not imply a municipal outage or a campus-specific cyber effect.
We reported a weeklong Eanes ISD Wi-Fi outage and a later Qilin listing, noting the district had not confirmed ransomware or linked the two.
Westlake High School student reporters documented district Wi-Fi loss Dec. 6-12, unavailable Skyward and Google Classroom, paper workarounds, and administrators’ description of a cybersecurity situation.
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