Print A ransomware attack continued to plague Scripps Health Monday, creating confusion for patients and their families, especially those who were scheduled for appointments this week. After fighting to regain control of its systems since the incident occurred on Saturday, Scripps said early Monday afternoon that it still had not resolved the technical terrorism that put its patient records, scheduling and other critical systems offline, forcing medical personnel in hospitals and other facilities to revert to paper for the time being. No specific timeline for when things might be back to some semblance of normal was offered. Scripps has not yet confirmed that ransomware — malicious software that is capable of holding digital assets hostage under a demand for cash — caused the outage. However, The San Diego Union-Tribune obtained an internal memo that implicates that particular attack vector which also, apparently, affected Scripps’ backup servers in Arizona.