Comment by simiones
Yes, why the Slack or HR or interview etc. data would still exist while being inaccessible to the original owner is very strange. The article seems to take it as a foregone conclusion that those accounts should all be expected to still exist with all the business data, and I don't know if this is based on the author's experience, or it's just a way to make the vuln sound far more serious than it really is.
On the other hand, I don't think people normally expect that OAuth depends strictly on domain ownership like this. I think most would expect that it depends on some kind of secret being stored on the IdP account side, uniquely identifying the IdP account holder beyond the email addresses presented. With regular password-based authentication, with MFA, you would at least get an MFA prompt if someone had gotten access to your email address and was being sent a password reset code. But with this type of SSO, any MFA verification is done on the IdP side, so if the IdP recognizes anyone who controls example.com as the rightful owner of any claims, then there is nothing you can do as the former owner of example.com.
>why the Slack or HR or interview etc. data would still exist while being inaccessible to the original owner is very strange
Ever been in a company that's collapsed before? Nobody hangs around to shut down the WorkDay account when they've been told they're not getting paid for the last 29 days work.