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Dumb Question: Can someone get dinged by Google for backlinks from a site that no longer exists?

Without getting to technical, my company hosts websites for clients using a SaaS product. A particular client left our business and transitioned to a new brand, and is now claiming the website she had with us is causing their new site trouble with toxic backlinks.

But the site she had with us, and all DNS, domain, SSL, and all other aspects of their site with us was deleted when they left our company.

Does this sound possible? I am not typically involved with SEO but have been asked to look into this issue.

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