How does Poppy relate to the Merlaut job?

This question contains spoilers. I'd recommend not reading it until you've finished the game.

Towards the middle of the game, you meet Poppy, the nude sex-slave who tries to stab Aiden.

You save her and her fellow sex-slaves, then she is never mentioned again.

However, upon rewatching the intro I noticed she was in the hotel during the Merlaut job (!!), wearing a trenchcoat and playing with her cell-phone (which in this game basically equates to being a hacker)

Whoa, what!? I thought the other hacker was Iraq!? And I don't remember there being any mention of Poppy being a hacker.