There was something a few years earlier that stopped working but I believe that was because the servers in question were no longer (publicly?) available rather than See actively fixing the underlying way the exploit works - hence once other servers were later identified people were able to use the exact same technique.
Last year, between the Main Sale and the Accomodation Sale, See fixed this particular hole in such a way that I'm confident something of that nature can't occur again - unless of course either See deliberately remove the protection they put in place (which would be an astonishingly dumb thing to do), or they made a change that inadvertently/unexpectedly reopens the hole (which we can't rule out but there's no sign of happening so far).
I know some people will think "well they could also leave a hole deliberately for themselves" - but probably not, as the people capable of doing that would be the same ones who already have deep enough access that they've got no need of a public facing hole. They'd already be able to get all the tickets they wanted without needing to do something public facing that could risk getting exposed / questions asked.
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