Now a day there is a lot of data security issues. Hackers are now very much expert in using their knowledge for hack into someone else’s system and  grab  the  information. Phishing  is one such type of methodologies which are used to acquire the information.  Phishing  is  a  cyber  crime  in  which  emails, telephone, text messages, personally identifiable information, banking details, credit card details, password is been targeted. Phishing  is  mainly  a  form  of  online  identify  theft.  Social Engineering  is  being  used  by  the  phisher  to  steal  victim’s personal  data  and  the  account  details.  This  research  paper gives  a  fair  idea  of  phishing  attack,  the  types  of phishing attack through which the attacks are performed, detection and prevention towards it.